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President Rouhani to attend ceremony for dead Iranian pilgrims

Politics Materials 2 October 2015 23:47 (UTC +04:00)
President Hassan Rouhani will attend on Saturday the ceremony to be held for the first batch of the corpses of the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims who were killed in Mina tragedy in Mecca last Thursday.
President Rouhani to attend ceremony for dead Iranian pilgrims

President Hassan Rouhani will attend on Saturday the ceremony to be held for the first batch of the corpses of the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims who were killed in Mina tragedy in Mecca last Thursday, IRNA reported.

The ceremony for the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims is slated for Saturday at the presence of President Rouhani.

The senior Iranian officials and armed forces commanders will also attend the ceremony.

Iran's Health Ministry announced on Friday that 104 bodies of dead Iranian pilgrims will arrive at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport early Saturday.

A total of 465 Iranian pilgrims lost their lives during the Hajj rituals in Mina, Mecca, last Thursday.

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