(24 Aug 2024)
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Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan – 24 August 2024
1. Funeral of person who died in Iran bus crash; prayer leader and others, coffin on ground
2. Mid of coffin on ground
3. Coffin being carried by people to graveyard
4. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Zawwar Javaid, father of pilgrim who died in Iran bus crash:
“I received a message from my son, where he said the brakes of their bus had failed. He texted this at 11:20. Just a minute later he asked us, in Sindhi, to pray for them. We said to him ‘God will save you’. Then the accident happened. God bless them.”
5. Various of people praying
6. People carrying coffins to graveyard
STORYLINE:
Mourners held funeral prayers in southern Pakistan’s Sindh province on Saturday for one of 28 Pakistani pilgrims who died in a bus crash in Iran this week, while heading to Iraq.
Zawaar Javed, the father of the man who died, said his son sent him a message on WhatsApp minutes before the crash, saying the brakes of the bus had failed.
"We said to him ‘God will save you’. Then the accident happened," he said.
Other funeral prayers were held in various parts of Sindh province for the other pilgrims. The ceremonies took place hours after a military aircraft brought home the bodies and the injured on orders from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. All the victims were from Sindh, where the plane landed.
Authorities have not revealed the cause of the crash near the city of Taft, some 500 kilometers (310 miles) southeast of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
In a state TV report, Mohammad Ali Malekzadeh, a local Iranian emergency official, blamed the crash on the bus’ brakes failing and a lack of attention by the driver.
The pilgrims had been on their way to Iraq’s holy city of Karbala, to commemorate Arbaeen — Arabic for the number 40 — marking the end of the annual 40-day mourning period after the date of the seventh century death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, a central figure in Shiite Islam.
Hussein died at the hands of the Muslim Umayyad forces in the Battle of Karbala, during the tumultuous first century of Islam’s history.
AP video by Usama Mir
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