TEHRAN, Feb. 11 (MNA) – A group of young people attending the the nationwide rallies to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, condemned the brutal murder of a 6-year-old Shia child in Saudi Arabia.

Condemning the martyrdom of a six-year-old Shia child in Saudi Arabia, a group of young people, carrying banners and signs of the kid's photo, chanted "love to Imam Ali will never stop."

A Saudi little boy, Zakariya Bader al-Jabir, said to be six or seven years old, while on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina with his Shia mother, has been barbarously killed for unknown reasons, fueling speculations that he could have been a sectarian and hate crime victim, media reports say.

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