As many as 28 devotees, who had lost their livesin the Iranian city of Yazd in a bus accident, were buried in theirnative towns and cities in Sindh on Saturday.The bodies of the devotees, who belonged to Larkana, Qambar Shahdadkot,Kandhkot, Shikarpur, Karachi and Khairpur, had been brought back toPakistan last night onboard Pakistan’s C-130 aircraft and were latersent to their native areas.23 people, who had been injured in the incident, also reached Jacobabadonboard the same plane.
Six devotees, five from the same family, namely Rustam Ali, KarimanKhatoon, Kainat Khatoon, Saadia Khatoon, Reema Khatoon and Syed SeeratAbbas were buried in Kandhkot.Earlier, their funeral prayers were offered at Primary School-I.
The deputy commissioner and assistant commissioner of Kandhkot, ACTangwani Sardar Mohsin Khan Sehryani, members of the Shiite UlemaCouncil, relatives of the deceased and a large number of ordinarycitizens attended the prayers.
Similarly, two devotees namely Afaq Ahmad Junejo and Mohsin Ali Junejowere laid to rest in a village near Naudero in Larkana. A large numberof people attended their funeral prayers.Eight other devotees, also from Larkana district, namely Kashif AliSheikh, Habibullah Soomro, Wafa Abbas, Imran Ali Kalhoro, Salman MustafaSheikh, Zahid Ali Soomro and Ambreen Shah, were also buried. Likewise, there was a state of mourning in Shikarpur as soon as thebodies of the devotees reached the city.Three pilgrims, two women and a child, who had lost their lives in thetragedy, were buried in Qambar Shahdadkot.
The deceased were NaseemAkhtar, Rahmat and Muntazir Mehdi.Similarly, four pilgrims namely Ijaz Manghnar, Asif Sirki, Syed BashirShah and Muhammad Bux Khaskheli were buried in Khairpur. Earlier theirfuneral prayers were offered at Pilot School. Everybody was in tears assoon as the bodies reached the city.Last night, the remains of 28 Pakistani pilgrims, who had lost theirlives in the unfortunate bus accident in neighbouring Iran’s Yazd city,were brought back to Pakistan.As many as 28 Pakistanis were killed when a bus carrying pilgrimsparticipating in Arbaeen crashed into a wall and overturned due tospeeding and brake failure near the Taftan-Dehshir checkpoint. Severalothers were injured as the vehicle caught fire after the accident.
A Pakistani C-130 aircraft carrying the bodies and 18 injured personstook off from Yezd airport at 6:00 pm Pakistani time and arrived atShahbaz Airport, Jacobabad at 8.30 pm.Provincial Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, officials, and severalrelatives of victims received the remains of the martyrs.
