Texas イスラム教徒s 嘆く/悼む 殺害された Pakistani 交流 student

Nasir Shenwari (C), holding daughter Aunza, grieves as the casket of Santa Fe High School shooting victim Sabika Sheikh, 17, leaves after a funeral service in Stafford, Texas, on May, 20, 2018

Nasir Shenwari (C), 持つ/拘留するing daughter Aunza, grieves as the casket of Santa Fe High School 狙撃 犠牲者 Sabika Sheikh, 17, leaves after a funeral service in Stafford, Texas, on May, 20, 2018

Houston's イスラム教徒 community gathered to 申し込む/申し出 祈りs Sunday at the funeral service for a 17-year-old Pakistani 交流 student killed in a 集まり 狙撃 at her southeast Texas high school.

About 1,000 people, many with Pakistani roots and wearing 伝統的な イスラム教徒 dress, converged on an Islamic 中心 in Stafford to 栄誉(を受ける) Sabika Sheikh, whose 団体/死体 was brought by 霊柩車 to the somber service from Santa Fe, the nearby small 田舎の town where a student 殺人d 10 people 含むing eight students.

の中で the 会葬者s was the late teen's first cousin who lives in the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs. She said Sheikh's 親族s are 完全に 荒廃させるd.

"The family 支援する home, we are in touch with them. They're crying every moment. Her mother is in 否定 権利 now," Shaheera al-Basid, a grad uate student in the US 資本/首都 Washington, told AFP at the funeral service.

"It's a shock we need our entire life to 回復する from," the 26-year-old 追加するd.

Men lined up in 列/漕ぐ/騒動s 申し込む/申し出d 伝統的な 嘆く/悼むing 祈りs as Sheikh's 棺, draped in the green and white 旗 of Pakistan, was brought into a small, cramped 聖域.

Sheikh had been 予定 to return home in mere weeks, in time for Eid al-Fitr, the holiday 場内取引員/株価 the end of the 宗教上の イスラム教徒 month of Ramadan.

- 'Shock' -

Worshippers pray during the funeral service

Worshippers pray during the funeral service

"It's a shock, it's so sad," said realtor Ike Samad, 67, who was born in Pakistan but has lived here most of his adult life and raised his children as Americans.

"I (機の)カム here just like her, as a student," he 解任するd. "God forbid that could have happened to me when I was here. As a parent, it is just 破滅的な."

Samad also 演説(する)/住所d the painful irony that a young woman from a country that many Americans associated with the war on terror in the 影響 of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington was killed in a country that millions around the world see as a bastion of freedom.

The attacks were a "悲劇, and 悲劇 いつかs teaches you life," he said. "But it also revisits, and in this 事例/患者 very の近くに to here."

Several Pakista ni-American 青年s also …に出席するd the funeral service, 含むing Danyal Zakaria of nearby Sugar Land, Texas.

The 17-year-old said it was "truly mind-blowing" that an 交流 student his age could be 削減(する) 負かす/撃墜する in 冷淡な 血 at a US school.

"This nation is known to be 安全な," he said. "If America is not 安全な, then where is?"

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