TEHRAN -- Tens of thousands of Iranians on Wednesday bid farewell to the victims of Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in the southern city of Shiraz.
In a burial ceremony, people carried the bodies of Gholm Abbas Abbasi, a caretaker at the holy shrine, and Muhammad Jahnagiri, a member of its security personnel, from the city’s Shohada (martyr) Square to the courtyard of the Shah Cheragh shrine.
The mourners carried posters in condemnation of blind terrorist acts by Daesh-linked groups and their Western sponsors.
Chanting slogans such as “Down with the U.S.” and “Down with Israel,” they called for a decisive and regret-inducing response to all the perpetrators and masterminds of the deadly crime.
Wednesday had been designated as a day of public mourning in Iran’s Fars province.
On Sunday, a terrorist from Tajikistan went on a shooting spree in the Shah Cheragh shrine, martyring two and injuring seven people. He was immediately arrested and handed over to law-enforcement authorities.
The Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for the terrorist assault.
In a similar attack in October 2022, an armed terrorist martyred 13 pilgrims and worshipers at the same shrine, including women and children, and wounded more than 20 others before he was shot and injured by security forces.