Photo by arunsharmaht

Photo by @arunsharmaht
Indian Shi'ite Muslims watch a Muharram procession on the eighth day before Ashura in Amroha, some 140kms east of New Delhi.

Ashura mourns the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, who was killed by armies of the Yazid near Karbala in 680 AD.

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