(19 Jul 2024)
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Gujar Khan, Pakistan – 19 July 2024
1. Mourners carrying casket of Hassan Abbas, a Pakistani man killed in this week’s shooting at a Shiite mosque in Oman
2. Mourners carrying casket
3. Various mourners carrying casket and walking toward site where funeral prayers will be held
4. Various mourners crying, mourning together while some beating themselves, in a show of mourning
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Fakhar Abbas, cousin of Hassan:
"We were watching international media news and they were saying that some terrorists opened fired over there (in Oman). Later, our local channels also ran the same news, and our relatives informed us (of Hassan’s death). He was a young man, it is shocking for us. He was a newlywed. He was a kind man."
6. Cleric offering funeral prayers, casket placed in front of mourners
7. Various of funeral prayers
8. Mourners carrying casket to burial site
9. Man crying
10. Mourners carrying casket to burial site
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Pakistani mourners in a small town buried on Friday a newlywed who was killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Oman this week.
The mourners performed funeral prayers for Hassan Abass in the town of Gujar Khan in Punjab province.
"It is shocking for us. He was a newlywed. He was a kind man," said Fakhar Abbas, a cousin of Hassan’s.
His body was one of four Pakistanis that were repatriated and handed to their families, officials said Friday.
Later, hundreds of mourners attended the funerals of the victims in their home cities in various parts of Pakistan.
On Monday, gunmen stormed a mosque in Oman’s capital, Muscat, that was packed with worshippers holding special prayers on the eve of the Shiite mourning festival of Ashoura.
The festival marks the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, at Karbala in modern-day Iraq.
Many of those inside the mosque were Pakistanis, who make up a large number of the nearly 2 million migrants who help power Oman’s economy working in construction and other fields.
Pakistan’s ambassador in Oman, Imran Ali, said his country was not the target and some of the Pakistanis died while trying to save other worshippers.
The Islamic State group claimed Monday’s attack, which was the first instance of the Sunni Muslim extremist group asserting responsibility for such an action in Oman.
Omani police have said the three assailants were killed in a subsequent gunfight and were Omani citizens, all brothers.
AP video shot by Muhammad Yousaf
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