Hockey player Shahida Raza laid to rest.

QUETTA -- Former women's national hockey player and athlete ShahiAAda Raza was laid to rest in Mari Abad's Behesht Zainab graveyard in the presence of hundreds of mourners on Friday.

The body earlier reacAhed Karachi via Turkiye and was brought to her home town, Quetta, on Friday morning by road as the PIA flight was cancelled due to a dust storm in Quetta.

Shahida Raza played for many years in the women's national hockey and football teams. She had died in a boat wreck off the coast of Italy last month while trying to reach Italy, along with many illegal migrants from Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan who crashed into the rocks trying to reach the shores in Crotone, Italy.

Balochistan Minister for Sports and Culture Abdul Khaliq Hazara, hockey coach Mohammad Abbas, and a large number of people from Hazara and other communities attended her funeral and burial.

She went to Iran in October 2022 for her journey to Italy via Turkiye to earn money for the treatment of her three-year-old son, Hassan, who was paralysed after a few months of his birth. 'She wanted to take her son abroad for treatment as doctors informed her that his treatment was not possible in...