In a bus accident in the southern Fars province of Iran on Tuesday evening, 28 people were killed, official IRNA agency reported on Wednesday.
According to the reports, the passenger bus was carrying 40 pilgrims from Iran’s central city of Yazd to the Iraqi city of Karbala to attend the religious ceremony of Arba’een. The accident happened at 20:30 local time (1700 GMT), when it overturned in Eqlid region of Fars province, reports BSS.
The chief of Crisis Management Center of Yazd province, Hadi Hadi-Nasab, told IRNA that the injured passengers were sent to a hospital in Shiraz city in Fars province. The cause of the incident is under investigation, the report said.
Arba’een is a Shiite Muslim religious observance that occurs forty days after the Day of Ashura when Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, was killed in Karbala desert. Tens of thousands of Iranians are expected to attend the Arba’een ceremony in Karbala on Nov. 20 this year.
