BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than three dozen people died in a stampede during the state funeral procession for Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani on Tuesday as his coffin made its way through his hometown in southeastern Iran, a semiofficial Iranian news outlet said.
The head of Iran’s emergency medical services said that 40 people had died and 213 were injured, according to Fars, a news agency associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as millions of people flooded the streets of Kerman to witness the procession for General Suleimani.