Karbala Governorate: Pilgrims from more than 80 countries have participated in Arbaeen this year
The deputy governor of Karbala, pointing out that the number of Arbaeen pilgrims this year is likely to exceed 20 million people, announced that pilgrims from more than 80 countries have come to Iraq.
Aqeel al-Fatlawi, the deputy governor of Karbala, announced today (Tuesday) that more than one and a half million pilgrims enter Karbala every day.
According to the report of “Earth News” website, the deputy governor of Karbala announced that this province hosted pilgrims from 80 countries during Arbaeen and it is expected that the number of pilgrims this year will exceed 20 million people.
Aqeel al-Fatlawi added: “Karbala province hosts millions of pilgrims; In such a way that at least one and a half million people enter the city. We are ready to continue serving until the last hours of pilgrimage.”
Al-Fatlawi pointed out: “About three million foreign pilgrims have arrived so far. A perfect plan has been prepared to protect the pilgrims as well as serve them.
In the end, he said: “There are foreign pilgrims from more than eighty countries; From Europe, Iran, Afghanistan and Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and all other countries.”
“Ali Shabar”, the spokesman of Astan Quds Hosseini (AS), on Sunday of this week (September 11), predicted that this year’s Arbaeen ceremony will be the biggest ceremony in the history of Iraq.
In an interview with the Iraqi media, he said that the peak of the Arbaeen ceremony has started today, so that a large number of pilgrims have entered [Karbala] along with a large number of Iraqi pilgrims on foot and a large number of pilgrims from other countries.
In connection with security, health, support, logistics and infrastructural aspects and referring to the reopening of the roads to facilitate the movement of pilgrims, Shabar stated that the necessary arrangements for the entry of Iranian pilgrims have been made in the last two days and the required buses It has been provided for their return to Mehran.
