Our bodies of 28 pilgrims killed in Iran arrive in Pakistan
JACOBABAD: The our bodies of 28 pilgrims killed when their bus crashed in central Iran whereas they have been travelling to a serious Shiite Muslim ritual have been returned to Pakistan.
The bus was carrying 51 Pakistani pilgrims to Iraq for the Arbaeen commemoration, one of many greatest occasions of the Shiite calendar, when it overturned and caught hearth in entrance of a checkpoint in Yazd province on Tuesday night time, Iranian state TV reported.
The our bodies have been transported from Yazd to an airfield in southern Pakistan, the place many of the deceased have been from and from the place they’d begun their journey.
The coffins, every draped with a Pakistani flag, arrived within the metropolis of Jacobabad shortly earlier than midnight on Friday, an AFP journalist witnessed.
A fleet of ambulances then took the our bodies to their hometowns.
Different pilgrims injured within the crash have been moved to hospitals in Karachi.
These killed included 11 ladies and 17 males, Yazd province disaster administration chief Ali Malek-zadeh instructed the Iranian broadcaster.
Head of Iran visitors police, Teymour Hosseini, cited a brake failure and the steep street as the explanations for the crash.
Arbaeen marks the fortieth day of mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
Some 22 million pilgrims attended the commemoration final yr within the Iraqi shrine metropolis of Karbala, the place Hussein and his brother Abbas are buried, in response to official figures.
The bus was carrying 51 Pakistani pilgrims to Iraq for the Arbaeen commemoration, one of many greatest occasions of the Shiite calendar, when it overturned and caught hearth in entrance of a checkpoint in Yazd province on Tuesday night time, Iranian state TV reported.
The our bodies have been transported from Yazd to an airfield in southern Pakistan, the place many of the deceased have been from and from the place they’d begun their journey.
The coffins, every draped with a Pakistani flag, arrived within the metropolis of Jacobabad shortly earlier than midnight on Friday, an AFP journalist witnessed.
A fleet of ambulances then took the our bodies to their hometowns.
Different pilgrims injured within the crash have been moved to hospitals in Karachi.
These killed included 11 ladies and 17 males, Yazd province disaster administration chief Ali Malek-zadeh instructed the Iranian broadcaster.
Head of Iran visitors police, Teymour Hosseini, cited a brake failure and the steep street as the explanations for the crash.
Arbaeen marks the fortieth day of mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
Some 22 million pilgrims attended the commemoration final yr within the Iraqi shrine metropolis of Karbala, the place Hussein and his brother Abbas are buried, in response to official figures.
