It stayed there until the next day. Hundreds of thousands of mourners had seen the body.[1] On 6 June, the body was brought down and the coffin opened for Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani to lead the Salat al-Janazah (funeral prayer), which lasted for 20 minutes.[5] Afterwards, since the crowds of mourners had swelled overnight to several millions, it was impossible to deliver the body to the cemetery through Tehran to the southern part of the city in a procession. Eventually, the body was transferred to an Army Aviation Bell Huey helicopter and brought by air to the cemetery.[1] A stampede among the massive crowd also killed eight people at the funeral procession.[6]