TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Thousands of mourners have attended funeral services in Iran for pilgrims killed in a stampede during last month's hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. A ceremony at Tehran University on Sunday was one of several held for dozens of victims whose remains were flown back to Iran ...
Ceremonies took place across Iran on Sunday to honour citizens killed in a stampede at the hajj, as a second plane returned the bodies of 114 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia./ The latest repatriation of corpses from the giant September 24 crush came after 104 bodies were brought home on Saturday, ...
Muslim pilgrims gather around the bodies of people crushed in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015./ Iran is welcoming a plane carrying home the first group of Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's stampede during the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage in ...
The first plane carrying the bodies of some of the 464 Iranian pilgrims killed in a haj stampede in Saudi Arabia has landed in Tehran. Rough cut (no reporter narration)./ ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION The first plane carrying the bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a haj stampede landed in ...
An honour guard carries the caskets of Iranian pilgrims killed in a stampede at the annual hajj, on their arrival on October 3, 2015 at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Tehran (AFP) - The first bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a stampede at the annual hajj arrived home ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The first plane carrying bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in the hajj stampede in Saudi Arabia arrived in Tehran Saturday, nine days after the disaster that escalated tensions between the two regional rivals. President Hassan Rouhani and other senior officials were at the ...
Iranian women protest outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran on September 27, 2015, four days after the deadly hajj stampede (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Dubai (AFP) - Saudi authorities have yet to provide a breakdown of the nationalities of the 769 Muslim pilgrims they say were killed in the hajj ...
Iranians will march in a procession to say goodbye to the bodies of 104 pilgrims killed during a stampede in Mecca on September 24. The goodbye ceremony will be held at the University of Tehran main campus and the bodies will be sent from there to their hometowns. So far 465 Iranians have been ...
President Hassan Rouhani will attend on Saturday the ceremony to be held for the first batch of the corpses of the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims who were killed in Mina tragedy in Mecca last Thursday, The ceremony for the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims is slated for Saturday at the presence of ...
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