Thousands Bid Iraqi Cleric Farewell

World | September 2, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have massed in the streets of the holy city of Najaf for the burial of Shia cleric Ayatollah Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim, killed by a car bomb on Friday. Mourners stretched out their hands, chanting their grief at his death, as the coffin - carried on the back of a truck - passed along a wide road leading to the central mosque. The ayatollah, who died along with more than 120 others in a huge explosion outside Najaf's holiest shrine, was buried in a cemetery set aside for people who died in a Shia uprising against British occupation 80 years ago. The burial came after a three-day funeral procession which began in Baghdad and visited a number of holy shrines, as Shia tradition demands.

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