- Title: MALAYSIA: Funeral of militant Azahari Husin shot dead by police in Indonesia.
- Date: 18th November 2005
- Summary: AZAHARI'S FATHER HUSIN YAACOB WATERING THE GRAVE
- Embargoed: 3rd December 2005 12:00
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- Location: Malaysia
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- Country: Malaysia
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Religion
- Reuters ID: LVAA94P4AI1NAQ420X66PPG0AHXR
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- Story Text: THE body of one of Asia's most wanted militants, killed in a shootout with Indonesian police, has been flown home to Malaysia and buried beside his mother's grave. In a thin drizzle of rain, the wooden coffin holding the body of 48-year-old Azahari Husin was lowered into the ground in a cemetery near his small timbered family home amid palm oil plantations. Indonesian police killed Azahari in a raid last week when they discovered his hideout in an East Java town. Many security officials considered him to be an expert bombmaker, Dozens of policemen watched as soil was scattered over the coffin and Azahari's father, Husin Yaakob, 78, sprinkled rosewater over it. In the adjacent plot lies Azahari's mother, Halijah Amal, who died several years ago. Neither Azahari's wife Wan Noraini Wan Yusof, who is battling throat cancer, nor his two young children, were present. Earlier, a crowd of about 150 onlookers had chanted, "Allah-u-akbar," or "God is greatest," as the body arrived for funeral prayers at a domed white mosque in Jasin, a town about 150 km southwest of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. "We apologise if he had unintentionally caused misery to anyone," Azahari's brother, Yusof, said in a short funeral address at the mosque. In Indonesia, Azahari's younger brother, Bani Yamin Husin, who had travelled to Jakarta to identify the body, made a tearful apology to Indonesians killed in attacks blamed on his brother. Azahari and one of his accomplices were killed on November 9 in Indonesia's East Java after their hideout in a small town was surrounded by crack anti-terrorism police.
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