Panipat, February 24
Twentythree bodies of victims (19 of them unidentified) of the Samjhauta
Express blasts were buried by the administration under the supervision of
officials of the Haryana Wakf Board and local Muslim clergy at Mehrana village
near here today.
Javed, a resident of Gaya in Bihar, decided to bury the bodies of four of his relatives here only. He identified the bodies of his brother Shabir Ahmad, Shabir’s wife Shamin Khatun, their son Shahbaz and Shamina’s brother Fakruddin.
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda came here and paid tributes to the victims.
Fortyeight bodies of the 67 lying at the civil hospital since Sunday last had been identified till today.
The administration decided to bury the remaining bodies as these had started putrefying and could not be preserved anymore.
Of the 48, nine bodies were those of Indians while the remaining were those of Pakistanis. These included 18 women and 9 infants.
