Earlier, Reuters reported that three of the Iranian pilgrims, who were kidnapped by armed insurgents near the Syrian capital of Damascus, had been killed.
The so-called Free Syrian Army has threatened to kill the rest of the pilgrims if the Syrian military does not stop attacking them.
Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims, who were traveling on a bus from Damascus International Airport to the shrine of Hazrat Zainab (AS) on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, were abducted by insurgents on August 4.
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