Hyderabad, June 12 -- A Libyan pilgrim, Amer al-Mahdi Mansour al-Gaddafi, has denied false rumours circulating on social media that he died while performing Tawaf at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, during Haj 2025.

Posts on platforms like Facebook and X said Amer had collapsed and died while circling the Kaaba. However, fact-checkers debunked the claims, and Amer himself spoke to Arabic media, including Zehra, saying he is "alive and healthy".

Amer, a young man from Libya, had long wished to perform Haj. But at the airport, he was held back at immigration due to a security alert linked to his surname "Al-Gaddafi", still flagged in some systems after Libya's past conflict.

As his group boarded the flight, Amer was left behind....