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Article: Thousands mourn 'shining star' Ahmed.
- Article from:
- Dewsbury Reporter (Dewsbury, England)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2007
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FIVE thousand people attended the funeral on Monday of the teenager who was stabbed at Dewsbury railway station.
Police closed the road outside the Mount Pleasant mosque in Batley as mourners filled the street to pay their respects to 17-year-old Ahmed Hassan.
Imran Rafiq, a friend of the family who attended, said the service was broadcast outside via speakers and people at the front of the crowd passed words to the back to people who still struggled to hear.
Mr Rafiq said friends and family took heart in the fact that it rained on Monday, but stopped when Ahmed's body was lowered into the grave - signs for Muslims he had been granted a place in ...