Jalal Assadi, who hailed from the northeastern Iranian city of Bojnourd, was in Iraq to voluntarily serve the pilgrims of the third Shia Imam and a grandson of the Prophet, Imam Hussein.
On August 10, he noticed the flames raging from the hotel next to his Mowkeb – a station serving the pilgrims –and rushed inside along four other Iraqi men to save those who were trapped inside the hotel but the sacrificial move came at a cost.
Assadi got severely burned and was hospitalized for weeks, but he passed away.
Another Iraqi man also died in the incident and three others were injured.
