Death toll stands at 50, multiple injured in stampede during Soleimani's funeral procession

death toll increased to over 50 in a stampede that erupted at funeral procession of Iran's top commander Qassem Soleimani killed in US strike. Hundreds of people have also been injured in incident. State TV’s online report on January 7 says incident happened in Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s hometown of Kerman, in souastern Iran.

TV quoted he of Iran’s emergency medical services, Pirhossein Koulivand, saying re h been people injured and killed. He did t offer any casualty figures. A procession in Tehran on Monday drew over 1 million people in Iranian capital, crowding both main thoroughfares and side streets.

outpouring of grief was an unprecedented hor for a man viewed by Iranians as a national hero for his work leing Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force. U.S. blames him for killing of American troops in Iraq and accused him of plotting new attacks just before his death Friday in a drone strike near Baghd’s airport. Soleimani also led forces in Syria backing President Bashar Ass in a long war, and he also served as point man for Iranian proxies in countries like Iraq, Leban and Yemen.

leer of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened on Tuesday to “set ablaze” places supported by United States over killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last week, sparking cries from crowd of supporters of “Death to Israel!”

Hossein Salami me pledge before a crowd of thousands gared in a central square in Kerman, hometown of slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani. His vow mirrored demands of top Iranian officials — from Supreme Leer Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to ors — as well as supporters across Islamic Republic, demanding retaliation against America for a slaying that’s drastically raised tensions across Middle East.

Mourners in Kerman dressed in black carried posters bearing im of Soleimani, a man whose slaying prompted Iran’s supreme leer to weep over his casket on Monday as a crowd said by police to be in millions filled Tehran streets. Although re was independent estimate, aerial foot and Associated Press journalists suggested a turut of at least 1 million, and throngs were visible on satellite ims of Tehran taken Monday.

outpouring of grief was an unprecedented hor for a man viewed by Iranians as a national hero for his work leing Guard’s expeditionary Quds Force.