Mashhad, Razavi Khorassan Prov., June 10, IRNA The Saudi pilgrims, who died of poisoning in a hotel in Mashhad on Sunday, will be buried at the compound of the holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS), the 8th infallible household of Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH). Mahdi Azizian, deputy custodian of Astan-e Qods, on Wednesday regretted that the pilgrims died ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Families of four Saudi Arabian children who died of inhaling toxic gas in a hotel during a pilgrimage to Iran's holy city of Mashhad have demanded that their kids be laid to rest at the shrine of the eighth Shiite Imam in the northwestern Iranian city, an official said. Following a request from the families of the victims, the bodies ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry has summoned Iran's envoy to the kingdom to express deep concern over the deaths by poisoning of four Saudi children in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad. Iran's official IRNA news agency says the victims were all accidentally over-exposed to poison commonly used to kill insects ...

Tehran, June 10, IRNA Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said Iran is sorry on what happened to a number of Saudi Arabian pilgrims in the holy city of Mashad. Talking in her weekly press briefing, she further expressed sympathy with the families of the four pilgrims who lost their lives due to poisoning. She noted that officials have ...

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The four Saudi pilgrims who recently lost their lives in northeastern Iran had been poisoned due to fumigation, Irans health minister says. Symptoms of poisoning were seen in the blood samples of the patients, Hassan Hashemi said on Monday, adding four of them had died by Sunday night. He added that the incident occurred as a result of fumigation ...

Four Saudi citizens have died from poisoning in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, hospital andjudiciaryofficials confirm. The incident happened onSunday when a group of 33 Saudi pilgrims were hospitalized with poisoning symptoms, said Abdollah Bahrami head of Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad. He added that four Saudi children lost their ...