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Mecca’s barbers rip big during Hajj festivities

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One of the final rituals of the Hajj is for pilgrims to completely shave off, or at least cut their hair.

That means Mecca’s barbers get hundreds of thousands of customers over the four-day period.

Amateurs jump on board as well, hoping to make some money out of the millions of visitors to the city, as our correspondent Adel Mahrouky, reports.

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