Soleimani’s Funeral was Postponed After Dozens Killed in Stampede

Soleimani’s Funeral was Postponed After Dozens Killed in Stampede

Qassem Soleimani’s funeral was postponed on Tuesday after upward of two dozen people died in a stampede crush, emergency services told state media.

According to report of NBC News, dozens of people died in a stampede Tuesday during the funeral procession for Qassem Soleimani, the top Iranian commander killed in an American airstrike last week, emergency service officials told state media.

The streets were packed for Soleimani’s final funeral procession in his hometown of Kerman, one day after hundreds of thousands of mourners turned out for a similar procession in the capital, Tehran.

Soleimani’s burial was postponed after as many as 50 people were killed and more than 200 others were injured during the crush in his hometown, Kerman. Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency said the burial had been postponed following the deaths.

Even before the deaths, Soleimani’s funeral procession was a deeply emotional, hourslong event. It was the latest mass outpouring of anger and grief across the country after the U.S. drone strike that killed Soleimani and others near Baghdad airport in neighboring Iraq.

Iran has promised to avenge the death of Soleimani, who was head of the Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was killed last week in a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad airport.

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