Shopian: After fifteen back-to-back funerals since Sunday evening, Hizb’s poster boy Burhan Wani’s close aide and top Hizb commander, Saddam Padder, was laid to rest in district Shopian on Monday morning.
Locals told INS that multiple-funerals were held for Saddam on Monday evening.
They said that since today morning, several more funerals were held for the slain Saddam.
They said that roughly over fifteen funerals were held for the Saddam since yesterday evening.
Militants appeared at his funeral and offered gun salute to their fallen comrade.
The last funeral for Saddam was held at 9.45 am today, locals said.
Amid anti-India, pro-freedom and gun salutes, Saddam was laid to rest at his native village in Heff, Shopian.
Saddam Padder along with his four associates, including assistant professor turned militant Dr Muhammad Rafi Bhat of Ganderbal were killed on Sunday during a gunfight in Badigam village of district Shopian.
Meanwhile a complete shutdown is being observed across Kashmir to mourn the killings.
Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) – compromising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik have called foe secretariat challo today in view of the killings.
