Tehran, Jan 3 (AP) Explosions at an event honouring a prominent Iranian general slain in a US airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 20 people and wounded 40 others, state-run media in Iran reported on Wednesday.

The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Dr Mohammad Saberi, the head of Kerman emergency services, for the figure.

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The blasts struck an event marking the the fourth anniversary of the killing of Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force. who died in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.

It wasn't immediately clear what caused the blasts. (AP)

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