Soleimani buried after stampede, missile attack

Mourners at the grave site wailed.

Iran has buried a top Revolutionary Guard general slain by US airstrike in Baghdad after a stampede at his funeral killed 56 and Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases housing American troops in response.
Officials lowered the shroud-wrapped remains of Qasem Soleimani into the ground in the southeastern city of Kerman just before 6am on Wednesday.
 Mourners at the grave site wailed.
Soleimani's death in the airstrikes has drastically raised tensions between Tehran and Washington. Iran launched a ballistic missile attack just hours earlier on two Iraqi bases housing American troops.

• MENA