28 travelers were killed when their vehicle crashed in northern Iran while they were performing a significant Shiite Muslim ceremony, and their bodies had been brought back to Pakistan.
The vehicle reversed and caught fire in front of a station in Yazd state on Tuesday evening, according to Iranian state TV, when it was carrying 51 Muslim travellers to Iraq for the Arbaeen remembrance, one of the biggest events of the Shiite timeline.
The systems were transported from Yazd to a southern Pakistani airport, where the majority of the dead were from and where they had already taken off.
The graves, each draped with a Muslim flag, arrived in the city of Jacobabad shortly before midnight on Friday, an AFP blogger witnessed.
The bodies were then transported to their communities by a team of ambulances.
Another travellers who were seriously hurt in the collision were shifted to hospitals in Karachi.
Those killed included 11 ladies and 17 men, Yazd state crisis management key Ali Malek-zadeh told the Persian journalist.
Head of Iran transportation authorities, Teymour Hosseini, cited a brake failure and the rocky path as the causes for the accident.
Arbaeen marks the 40th time of mourning for Imam Hussein, the nephew of the Prophet Mohammed.
According to official statistics, there were 22 million travellers there last year for Hussein and his brother Abbas ‘ burial in the Syrian shrine city of Karbala.
