Shi'ite Muslims all over the world have been beating themselves with sharp blades, covering their bodies in mud and lighting bonfires in the streets to mourn the death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson today.
Photographs from Delhi, India, showed shockingly young boys lashing their own backs with small knives and chains.
Thousands of men performed the same brutal practice in Lebanon, Bangladesh, Iraq, Pakistan and Myanmar and even Athens, Greece.
The bloody rituals were part of the holy Day of Ashura, when Shi'ite Muslims remember the death of Imam Hussein at the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD.
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Photographs from Delhi, India, showed shockingly young boys lashing their own backs with small knives and chains to mark the holy Muslim Day of Ashura
Shi'ite men and young boys in Lebanon, Greece and Bangladesh (pictured) perform the same brutal practice today
Men in Athens, Greece (pictured), lash their own backs with sharpened knives and chains to mourn Imam Hussein who died in the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD
Shia Muslim devotees self-flagellate during Ashura, outside Mogul mosque in Yangon, Myanmar
Blood drips from the head of a young Shi'ite Muslim in Myanmar - one of thousands to self-flagellate on the holy Day of Ashura today
Some Muslim clerics have criticised the holy day because they believe it gives a negative image of their religion
A Shi'ite Muslim flagellates himself during a Muharram procession to mark Ashura in Bengaluru, India
(Source: dailymail.co.uk)
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