_*Bashir Lashkari laid to rest amid pro-freedom slogans, thousands offer funeral prayers*_
_*Bashir Lashkari laid to rest amid pro-freedom slogans, thousands offer funeral prayers*_
RAJESHWAR SINGH
_*Srinagar | Jul 02, 2017*_
_Thousands of people on Sunday participated in the funeral prayers of slain Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Bashir Lashkari at his ancestral Soaf-shali village of Kokernag in south Kashmir._
_The mourners were shouting slogans in favour of Kashmir’s freedom as the body of Lashkari - killed in a gunfight along with an aide Abu Maz yesterday in Dialgam village - was being carried towards the graveyard._
_Lashkari, who carried a reward of ten lakh rupees, was blamed for the killing of SHO Feroz and five policemen in an attack in Thajiwara area of the district._
_Funeral prayers were offered for him last night as well. At least five militants appeared in the funeral and offered a gun salute to him._
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