A fire at festival to celebrate Chaharshanbe Suri in Iran has killed three people and injured hundreds of others. Three people were killed and nearly 1,900 injured celebrating Iran's traditional fire festival in the run-up to this weekend's Persian New Year, emergency services said Wednesday. One of the deaths came in Tehran, despite an overnight ban on gatherings imposed in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The Chaharshanbe Suri celebrations, during which participants jump over bonfires to purify themselves and ward off evil spirits, are part of Iran's pre-Islamic heritage and generally frowned on by the Shiite clerical establishment. But they are popular with young people, many
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