“56 people died in a crush during a farewell to Suleymani in Kerman,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Kulivand said that 13 victims of the incident were taken to medical facilities.
Earlier it was reported about 40 dead and 213 injured.
The head of the Kudes special forces of the IRGC, General Kassem Suleimani, died on January 3 in Baghdad as a result of a missile strike from the United States.