JACOBABAD: Bodies and injured persons of Iran bus accident were brought to Pakistan on Friday night.
A special aircraft of Pakistan Air Force arrived Jacobabad with 28 bodies and 16 injured persons from Iran Yazd city.
The bodies were sent to their respective hometown from Shehbaz Airbase, where the relatives of departed souls were present to receive the bodies of their love ones.
The injured were shifted Chand Medical College for the treatment.
It is pertinent to mention here that at least 28 Pakistani pilgrims were killed and 23 others injured last night when their bus crashed in Iran’s Yazd city on Wednesday.
“In pursuit of their religious journey, 28 Pakistani zaireen laid down their lives in Yazd city in a bus accident. Another 23 are injured,” Pakistan’s Ambassador to Iran, Mudassir Tipu, announced in a post on X.
According to Iran’s Mehr Agency, the bus overturned at the Dehshir-Taftan checkpoint in Yazd on Tuesday night and then caught fire.
The Pakistani pilgrims were headed through Iran to Iraq to attend the Arbaeen commemoration, which marks the 40th day of mourning for Imam Husain, the grandson of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
