Dozens of people have been killed and many more injured in a stampede at the funeral service for General Qassem Soleimani in south eastern Iran
Dozens of people were killed in a stampede among huge crowds of mourners at the funeral ceremony for a slain military commander in the south eastern Iranian city of Kerman on Tuesday, state-affiliated media reported.
Tens of thousands of people had poured on to the streets of Kerman to pay tribute to General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq on Friday. Many chanted "Death to America".Credit:The Young Journalists Club, which is affiliated to state television, said on its website that a stampede had broken out and 35 people were killed and 48 wounded. More details were not immediately available.
Soleiman's body had been taken to Iraqi and other Iranian cities before arriving in his hometown Kerman for burial, prompting mass outpourings of grief nationwide as the coffin was carried through streets.In other developments on Tuesday, a senior Iranian official said Tehran was considering 13 scenarios to avenge his killing.
"We will take revenge, a hard and definitive revenge," the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, General Hossein Salami, told mourners in Kerman. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and military commanders have said Iranian retaliation for the US action on Friday would match the scale of Soleimani's killing but that it would be at a time and place of Tehran's choosing.
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