Malegaon: A 12-year-old Pakistani girl was among the 31 people killed in the bomb attacks in this powerloom town.
The body of Sajida Bahanu Rizwan, a resident of Islamabad, was among five unclaimed bodies lying in a hospital. It was handed over to her mother on Saturday, who was visiting relatives in Malegaon.
"The bodies of Hyatt Sheikh (50), a local, and Sajida Bahanu Rizwan, a Pakistani national, were handed over to their relatives and they were buried on Sunday," said Salim Chiaraksha,
a social worker.
"Shab-e-barat falling on the holy day of Friday was an auspicious coincidence and Sajida and her mother had come all the way from Pakistan to visit relatives, but the blast took her life," he said.
Sajida’s mother, who escaped the blast, and her Malegaon-based uncle, Chiaraksha arranged her funeral.
Hyatt Sheikh's body was buried at the Bada Kabrastan cemetery, where two of Friday's four blasts occurred.
The authorities had sought proof of identity before handing over the bodies and this caused a delay in the funeral arrangements for the two, Chiaraksha said.
Three bodies are still to be claimed and are lying in a makeshift mortuary at a hospital in Malegaon.
"Twenty-four bodies were buried at the Bada Kabrastan while four were buried in the Ayesha Nagar graveyard," an official of Bada Kabrastan said.
The blasts injured nearly 300 people, a majority of them children.
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