Eight victims laid to rest in Mirpurkhas.

Byline: Afaq Ahmed

MIRPURKHAS -- Bodies of eight victims of the Tezgam train tragedy arrived here on Friday. The dead were recognized by their faces as well as their body marks.

Meanwhile, the city remained in a state of mourning as traders kept their shops shut for the second consecutive day on Friday.

Out of the total eight bodies that reached here, two were sent to their native town Kunri, in district Umerkot, while bodies of the remaining six victims were handed over to their families in the city.

Hundreds of people attended the funeral prayers of victims of the train accident. Later, they were later laid to rest in different graveyards of the city.

A large number of people visited the homes of those who perished in the accident, and...

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