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The bodies of 28 pilgrims killed when theirbus crashed in central Iran while they were travelling to a major Shia Muslim ritual have been returned to Pakistan. The bus was carrying 51 Pakistani pilgrims to Iraq for the Arbaeen commemoration, one of the biggest events of the Shia calendar, when it overturned and caught fire in front of a checkpoint in Yazd province on Tuesday night, Iranian state TV reported. The bodies were transported from Yazd to an airfield in southern Pakistan, where most of the deceased were from and from where they had begun their journey. The coffins, each draped with a…

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