The foundation also receives generous contributions from the millions of pilgrims who visit the Mashhad shrine each year.

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Emergency shelters are also being airlifted to Mashhad in eastern Iran, some of it provided by the United Kingdom.

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The killer was arrested last year in the north-eastern city of Mashhad, according to the main reformist newspaper Norouz.

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The officers took Hofer and the girl to the security office of the airport and in the course of the interrogation, the girl said that she had got to know Helmut Hofer several months earlier at a hotel in Mashhad.

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