PULWAMA: The six militants slain in two gunfights in Budgam and Shopian districts were laid to rest at their ancestral graveyards in south Kashmir after thirty rounds of funeral prayers on Wednesday.
Eye witnesses said tens of thousands of people participated in the funeral prayers of the militants, even as their associates turned up at the funeral of Syed Ruban at Nazneenpora and offered a gun-salute.
They said that thirty rounds of funeral prayers were held to accommodate a huge rush of mourners who had marched to the native villages of the slain militants from nearby and far-off places.
Braving cold, thousands of people thronged Nazneenpora, Chidipora, Draggad and Shirmal villages of Shopian district to participate in the last rites of militants slain in Shirmal gunfight on Tuesday.
The slain militants included an IPS officer’s brother Shamsul Haq, Amir Suhail and Shoaib.
Similar scenes were witnessed at Lassipora and Nowpora, native villages of Sabzar Ahmad and Touseef Ahmad Itoo who were killed in a gunfight with the forces at Hapatnar in Charar-e-Sharif on Monday.
Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani telephonically addressed the mourners at the funeral of Shamsul Haq in Shopian.
Haq was also cousin of another slain Hurriyat activist turned militant Zubair Ahmed Turray, who was killed during a gunfight in April last year.