(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Around 25,000 security elements will implement the security plan during Ashura visit, next month, a media source said on Monday.
“The police department in Karbala mapped out a plan, with the participation of 25,000 security elements to be distributed throughout the province during Ashuraa,” Major Alaa al-Ghanemi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Ashura is an occasion marking the martyrdom of Imam al-Hussein (pbuh), the prophet Muhammad’s grandson and the third holiest Imam for Shiite Muslims, in the battle Karbala in the Hijri year 61 (680 in the Gregorian calendar).
Thousands of Shiite Muslims from all over Iraq and neighboring countries head to Imam Hussein’s tomb in Karbala as well as to Shiite shrines in other provinces to celebrate the occasion.
Karbala lies 108 km southwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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