At least 35 people were killed and 48 injured in a stampede at the funeral of General Qassem Soleimani in the town, woven in the South-East of Iran

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At least 35 people were killed and 48 injured in a stampede at the funeral of General Qassem Soleimani in the town, woven in the South-East of Iran. As reported by Press TV on Twitter at a funeral millions of people. Because of the influx of the crowd the funeral ceremony was postponed.

It is noted that due to the large number of applicants conduct of General Soleimani in the last journey to the place of the funeral ceremony there was a stampede in which killed 35 people, and about 50 were injured. It is reported by RIA “Novosti”.

According to the AP report, the stampede occurred immediately after the start of the funeral procession in Kerman – the hometown of Sulaymaniyah. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated. Iranian television reported dead during a live broadcast, without specifying the data source. Information about the crush of reporters was confirmed by the doctors, without naming the number of dead and injured. The head of the ambulance PIR Hossein Coliand explained that currently, the investigation of the circumstances of the incident, the results of which will be presented later.

On the eve on the streets of Tehran, there was a multimillion-dollar funeral procession in memory of the slain Iranian General and the “friend of Putin” Qasem Soleimani. For the ceremony arrived the Deputy leader of Hizbullah Naim Qassem, head of the political Bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh, the commander of the Iraqi Shiite militia “Harakat an-Nujaba” Sheikh Akram Kaabi. The ceremony was attended by the representatives of the diplomatic corps of the foreign countries, Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani.

Advisor to Iran’s Supreme leader for international Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati at the farewell ceremony with the deceased, stated that Washington would be “another Vietnam” if it does not withdraw its troops from the Middle East. The General’s daughter Zeinab Soleimani said that the murder of her father “will lead to the revival of the region”, and “families of American soldiers in the middle East will live in anticipation of the death of their children.”