At least 73 people have died due to two explosions recorded this Wednesday near a cemetery in the province of Kerman (south) where he is buried Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard killed in a bombing carried out by the United States in January 2020 in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

According to the Reuters agency, which quotes a representative of Iran’s emergency services, the death toll rises. up to 73 people, with 170 injured. “The explosions were caused by terrorist attacks,” according to local press, citing an agent from the province of Kerman.

According to information collected by the Iranian news agency Tasnim, the explosions took place near the Garden of Martyrs and the Sahib al Zaman mosque during an event for the fourth anniversary of Soleimani’s deathdied on January 3, 2020 due to the aforementioned US attack.

Thus, the Iranian media have indicated that a first explosion has left numerous victims, after which it has been recorded another explosion in the areawithout the Iranian authorities having commented on the causes of the incident.

Iranian security forces have reinforced their presence in the area of ​​the explosions, where numerous ambulances have also been sent to treat the victims and transfer the injured to hospitals in the city.

Thousands of people had gathered in the city to pay tribute to Soleimani, one of the victims of a drone attack carried out by the United States. Among the dead was also Abu Mahdi al Muhandisthen ‘number two’ of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) – a coalition of Iraqi pro-government militias supported by Iran -.

On December 6, an Iranian court sentenced the United States Government and other institutions and individuals in the North American country to pay 50 billion dollars (more than 46 billion euros) for the death of Soleimani, after issuing dozens of arrest warrants against senior US officials, including former President Donald Trump.