IRNA – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi on Sunday said that the Ministry and Iran's Embassy in Baghdad are firmly following up the case of the Iranian pilgrims who were wounded in Samara terrorist attacks this morning.


Two Iranian women and five men were killed Sunday morning when two suicide bombers blown up themselves in a parking lot in Samara, north of the Iraqi capital, near buses of the Iranian pilgrims.

Another 61 Iranian pilgrims were injured in the deadly incident a number of them were reported to be in critical conditions.

Qasemi strongly condemned the horrible terrorist attacks stressing that Iran's embassy to Iraq had probed into the bloody incident and found out that those Iranians martyred or injured in the terrorist attack in Samarra were pilgrims from Iran's 'provinces of Isfahan, Sistan-Balouchestan and Hormuzgan.'

Expressing sympathy with the bereaved families of the martyrs and the injured, Qasemi said that necessary arrangements were made to transport the injured who are in critical conditions to hospitals in the city of Kazemein by three helicopters while the remaining injured Iranian pilgrims were transported by ambulances to Kazemein.

'Bodies of the martyrs of the heinous crime will be transported to Baghdad after legal procedures,' Qasemi said.