Bahawalpur tragedy: Collective funeral prayer of 125 victims offered

Bahawalpur tragedy: Collective funeral prayer of 125 victims offered

Bahawalpur (Staff Report): The collective funeral prayers of 125 victims killed in an oil tanker explosion at Bahawalpur’s Ahmedpur Sharqia town were offered at Ahmed Pur East this evening.

A large number of people including Members of Parliament of Bahawalpur division, civil officials attended the funeral prayer.

Later, the bodies of the victims were dispatched for burial in six mass graves as twenty five dead bodies per mass grave.

All coffins have been tagged so that after the completion of DNA test they can be handed over to their legal heirs.

Earlier, bodies of twenty four victims were handed over to the families of the deceased after their identification.