Explosions at an event honouring a prominent Iranian general slain in a United States airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 20 people and wounded 40 others, state-run media in Iran reports.
The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Dr Mohammad Saberi, the head of Kerman emergency services, for the figure.
The blasts struck an event marking the the fourth anniversary of the killing of General Qassim Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, who died in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the blasts.
A live broadcast had showed thousands of mourners participating in the death anniversary, with ambulances on site.
Soleimani was the architect of Iran’s regional military activities and is hailed as a national icon among supporters of Iran’s theocracy.
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