ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani left here Sunday for Saudi Arabia to attend the funeral prayers of Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz al Saud.

The prime minister was accompanied by Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Syed Khursheed Shah.

Nayef's body was expected to arrive Sunday in Jeddah from Geneva, where he was receiving medical treatment. Burial was planned for later Sunday in Mecca.

The 79-year-old prince died of “cardiac problems” while he was in Switzerland, at his brother's residence in Geneva.

He will be buried in Al-Adl cemetery near the Grand Mosque, where several members of the royal family and prominent Islamic scholars are interred, the Okaz daily said.