Iranian teenager injured on Tehran metro has died

The official version is Armita Geravand fainted and hit her head, but there are rumours she was assaulted on the train for not wearing a headscarf.

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00:00 Iranian state-run media has reported the death of Armeeta Gheraband, a teenager mysteriously

00:07 injured on October 1st on a Tehran Metro train she'd entered without wearing a headscarf.

00:12 CCTV from the Metro didn't show what happened on the train, but does show her friends carrying

00:17 Armeeta's limp body off the carriage. She'd been in a coma since the incident, with many

00:21 speculating she'd been assaulted by religious police for flouting the rule demanding women

00:26 and girls wear headscarves. The official version is she suffered a sudden drop in blood pressure

00:31 and fainted.

00:32 [WHOOSH]