- 17.5 million: People who made the Arbaeen pilgrimage to Karbala this year, according to the defence minister. Among them 4.5 million foreigners, including at least one million Iranians. - 40,000: Security forces deployed across the city for the occasion, according to Karbala operations command. - 8: Confirmed number of deaths related to the pilgrimage: one by mortar fire west of the city, four in incidents related to crowd management at the Iranian border and three in a bomb blast targeting pilgrims in Baghdad. - 700: The total number of hotels in Karbala -- all fully booked, according to the governor. - 12: Average number of days it takes pilgrims to walk from the southern city of Basra to Karbala. - 7,000: Number of mawakeb -- spots in Karbala where volunteers have set up tents serving food and beverages to the pilgrims. - 10,000: Number of volunteer cleaners sent by the Tehran municipality to handle the waste generated by the pilgrims. It also sent 60 rubbish trucks to Karbala. - 32,000: Number of meals served in a day about 50 metres (yards) from the shrine at one Iranian mawkab (singular form of mawakeb). - 90,000: Number of pieces of flatbread produced in eight hours at this mawkab by a special machine, whose owner -- Ali Sabri from the Iranian city of Tabriz -- has vowed to donate to Karbala.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:31:05 +0000
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