KARACHI, Feb 6 Funeral prayers for 14 victims were held in Saudabad area where hundreds of mourners turned up to attend the funerals and express their condolences to the bereaved families on Saturday.

The second funeral was held in the afternoon at the Jinnah Ground in Azizabad area where funeral prayers for six activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were held.

A large number of people, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leadership and members of the coordination committee, attended the funeral prayers.

The third funeral service was held at the Saint Patrick's Church, Saddar, where prayers were offered for the six victims belonging to the Christian community who were killed in the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) blast.

The funeral prayers for the 14 mourners (one of them was wounded in the first blast, but died in second blast in the JPMC) killed in the blast on Shahrah-i-Quaideen flyover were held in a highly charged atmosphere at the RCD Ground adjacent to the Imambargah Husaini Sefaratkhana, Saudabad Malir, on Saturday morning.

Anwar Abbbas, 50; Hasan Rehman, 40; Ali Raza, 22; Ali Babar, 25; Shahid Ali; Ahmed Saeed, 20; Anjum Abbas, 30; Zain, 17; Hasan, 30; and Kazim were among the victims of the blast on the Shahrah-i-Quaideen flyover.

Three members of a family — 50-year-old grandfather Zamir Husain, his 25-year-old son Tauqir Husain, and Tauqir's 10-year-old son Ali Salman — were also among the victims of the Shahrah-i-Quaideen blast.

Maulana Kausar Abbas led the funeral prayers for the 14 victims while Maulana Abbas Kumali, Maulana Hasan Zafar Naqvi, Maulana Syed Shahanshah Naqvi and others attended the funeral prayers.

The funeral prayers which were scheduled for 9am, as had been announced earlier in the night, got delayed because a large number of mourners decided to walk towards the RCD ground in small processions. They were chanting slogans and praying for the victims.

A large number of women were present inside the Imambargah Husaini Sefaratkhana. The families of the victims were wailing when the bodies were brought to the Imambargah for their last glimpse.

Thirteen victims of the Shahrah-i-Quaideen blast were laid to rest in the Model Colony graveyard amid moving scenes, while a 30-year-old resident of Jafar-e-Tayyar society, Asif Husain, who initially received minor injuries in the Shahrah-i-Quaideen blast but lost his life in the second blast outside the JPMC, was buried at Wadi-i-Husain graveyard.

The activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement who died in the JPMC blast included UC Nazim Muhammad Khalil, Ghulam Murtaza, Jameel Ahmed, Irshad, Khuram Hakim and Shafeeuddin.

After the funeral prayers for the victims at the Jinnah Ground, the bodies were taken to the Shuhada graveyard for the burial.

Two more persons' funerals were also held late on Friday night. However, the place of the funerals and the identity of the two victims remained unclear.