Stampede kills 40 at funeral for Iran general killed by U.S.

By NASSER KARIMI, AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL
TEHRAN, Iran — A stampede on Tuesday at a funeral procession for a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike last week killed 40 people and injured 213 others, two Iranian semi-official news agencies reported.
The stampede took place in Kerman, the hometown of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as the procession got underway, said the Fars and ISNA news agencies, citing Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of Iran’s emergency medi