TEHRAN - A member of Lebanon’s Civil Defense has recounted the distressing experience of retrieving the body of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah from the site of an Israeli air attack on Beirut's southern suburb.

According to the comments made by the Civil Defense team’s member, Nasrallah was martyred as he was preparing to say his prayers. 

“When we found Nasrallah’s body, he was not wearing a ring which made it clear that he had been preparing to perform his wudu (ablution) before saying his prayers,” he said. 

He added that the body of the Hezbollah chief was removed intact and without any injuries from the blast scene. 

Nasrallah, who led the Hezbollah resistance movement for over three decades, was martyred on September 27 in the Israeli bombing of Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburb, using US-made jet fighters and bunker-buster bombs.