Didn’t the same thing happen during Ayatollah’s Khomeini’s funeral years ago?
They were literally fighting over his corpse, and pulled it out of the coffin as it was being carried!!
Medieval mentality ... this is why Iran should never be allowed to have nukes
Yup, just posted a picture of that.
See the Twitter link I posted in #7. There is some video of there.
There was never a public account of the number dead from the 5 Jun 1989 funeral of Khomeini. The general estimate is that a minimum of two million were somewhere within a mile of the funeral procession. The burial ‘group’ eventually gave up on driving it down via the streets. At that point, a US-made Huey was brought in and the coffin was put on it for transport.
The barriers at the graveyard...simply didn’t work. Guards gave up on controlling the approaching crowds. The Huey landed and the coffin was then picked up by members of the Revolutionary Guard. They then started to make walk around...I guess to give the crowd some ‘thrill’. But this just led to chaos, and where the they dropped the coffin. Out rolled the dead dude, in his cloaked body.
So they fumbled around, with thousands trying to touch the dead body. Finally, they got ahold of the body, throwing him back into the coffin, and push back to get the body onto the Huey. Pilot starts the engine up, and with guards pushing back....it lifts off with the dead guy, and they have to wait till the next day to attempt another burial.
It was a five-star circus act, and really demonstrated the strength and character of the leadership in the country....using the funeral as some type of ‘show’.
As for the dead from day one of the funeral...there are no statistics, but I would imagine that a minimum of a hundred were dead. From the day two attempt....maybe fewer, but still more folks died.
...along with centuries of inbreeding...