{"id":42178,"date":"2020-01-07T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T12:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42178"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T12:22:03","slug":"dozens-killed-in-stampede-at-soleimanis-funeral-iran-state-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42178","title":{"rendered":"Dozens killed in stampede at Soleimani’s funeral: Iran state TV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dozens of people have been killed in a stampede that erupted in the Iranian city of Kerman at the funeral procession for a top commander killed in an air strike by the United States<\/a>, according to officials.<\/p>\n

“So far 40 people were killed and 213 others were wounded in the incident,”\u00a0the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday, citing an emergency services official.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Earlier, the head of the country’s emergency services, Pirhossein Koolivand, told state television that\u00a0“32 of our citizens lost their lives in the procession … and 190 were injured” due to “overcrowding”.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The injured were immediately transferred to hospital, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Initial videos posted online showed people lying lifeless on a road, others shouting and trying to help them.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in the small city of Kerman for the burial of Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, who was assassinated on Friday near the international airport of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad.<\/p>\n

The burial was postponed, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, without providing more details.<\/p>\n

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Stampede at Soleimani’s funeral kills dozens<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Tuesday’s funeral comes after days of processions that attracted huge crowds in the streets of Ahvaz in southwestern Iran<\/a>, followed by Mashhad in the northwest, the capital Tehran and the holy city of Qom.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Assed Beig, reporting from Tehran, said many who were unable to attend the previous gatherings had made their way to the final procession in Kerman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“People are travelling in narrow spaces, going in one direction to that specific graveyard – and that could be one of the reasons as to why a stampede has happened,” Beig said.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>assassination of Soleimani<\/a>\u00a0triggered a dramatic escalation of tensions in the region and marked the most significant confrontation between the\u00a0<\/span>United States<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Iran<\/a>\u00a0in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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