HYDERABAD:
Six victims of the Nooriabad van accident, which claimed 10 lives on February 22, were laid to rest on Wednesday. Two of the bodies were handed over to the bereaved families on Tuesday night and four others on Wednesday morning after DNA testing.
The funeral prayers of Anees Qureshi, 40, and Irfan Khan, 32, were offered in Latifabad Unit 8 and Pakka Qila respectively after midnight on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the bodies of Farrukh Khalil, 30, Ghulam Hussain Shaikh, 60, Arif Hussain Ghauri, 45, and Asim Ahmed Siddiqi, 44, were brought from Karachi on Wednesday afternoon. Their funeral rites were held in Latifabad Unit 10, Islamabad Chowk, alFazal Town and Latifabad Unit 8, respectively.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 5th, 2015.