Tragedy At Wedding As Cousin To Bride Shoots Her Dead (Read Details)

 A recently wedded woman identified as Mahvash Leghaei has lost her life after she was shot at her own wedding ceremony after a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire hit her in the head.

24-year old Mahvash got married at Firuzabad in Iran and the unfortunate incident happened  when a guest, believed to be a cousin of the groom, fired his unlicensed high-powered hunting rifle, with the bullet reportedly going straight through her skull and also injuring two male guests at the event.

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In the word of Colonel Mehdi Jokar, the spokesman for the Police:

“We had an emergency call of a shooting at a wedding hall in Firuzabad city and officers were dispatched immediately.

 “The officers discovered that somebody had fired shots with a hunting rifle as part of the local nomad tradition, but unfortunately because of the crowds and the person's poor control of the weapon, he managed to shoot three people, two men and the bride.

 “The shooter then fled the area but police located the man still carrying the unlicensed hunting rifle that had been fired at the wedding.'

Initial reports said that two bullets were fired, the first without incident, but the second hit the bride in the head, passing through her brain and hitting the two other guests.

According to the police spokesman, the bride was placed in a coma but later died, with the two others who had been shot  surviving.

The unnmaed shooter was later identified as a 36-year-old cousin of the groom.

 “Naturally any disturbance of public order like this crosses the red line with the police need to act, and people need to know that to create a safe community shooting is banned at weddings.

'We will take tough action against anybody found to be breaking this rule.”, the police spokesman added.

A recently wedded woman identified as Mahvash Leghaei has lost her life after she was shot at her own wedding ceremony after a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire hit her in the head.

24-year old Mahvash got married at Firuzabad in Iran and the unfortunate incident happened  when a guest, believed to be a cousin of the groom, fired his unlicensed high-powered hunting rifle, with the bullet reportedly going straight through her skull and also injuring two male guests at the event.

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In the word of Colonel Mehdi Jokar, the spokesman for the Police:

“We had an emergency call of a shooting at a wedding hall in Firuzabad city and officers were dispatched immediately.

“The officers discovered that somebody had fired shots with a hunting rifle as part of the local nomad tradition, but unfortunately because of the crowds and the person's poor control of the weapon, he managed to shoot three people, two men and the bride.

 “The shooter then fled the area but police located the man still carrying the unlicensed hunting rifle that had been fired at the wedding.'

Initial reports said that two bullets were fired, the first without incident, but the second hit the bride in the head, passing through her brain and hitting the two other guests.

According to the police spokesman, the bride was placed in a coma but later died, with the two others who had been shot  surviving.

The unnmaed shooter was later identified as a 36-year-old cousin of the groom.

 “Naturally any disturbance of public order like this crosses the red line with the police need to act, and people need to know that to create a safe community shooting is banned at weddings.

'We will take tough action against anybody found to be breaking this rule.”, the police spokesman added.