The execution of the Báb in Tabriz on 9 July 1850 is unusually well documented for a nineteenth-century Persian event, because European consular officials were present or nearby and filed reports. He and a young follower were suspended by ropes against the wall of the barrack square, and a regiment of seven hundred and fifty Armenian Christian soldiers under Sám Khán fired in three ranks. The smoke of the volley filled the square; when it cleared, the ropes had been severed by the bullets and the Báb was not there, while the young follower stood unharmed. The Báb was found in the cell he had been taken from, completing a conversation with his secretary that had been interrupted. Sám Khán withdrew his regiment and refused to fire again. A second regiment was brought and the execution was completed. The bodies were thrown outside the city and recovered by followers; the remains were concealed for decades and eventually interred on Mount Carmel in 1909, where the Shrine now stands.