Pune boy injured in Iraq blast dies

The four-year-old boy from Pune, who was injured in a bomb blast on Syria-Iraq border on May 27, died on Friday.

Burhanuddin Jariwala, the only child of his parents, had gone to Iraq on a pilgrimage with his family. Burhanuddin's grandfather Abbas Manaswala and seven-year-old Insiya Zakir Kothawala of Nagpur, who was also on the tour with her family, were killed in the explosion. His last rites were performed in Najaf in Iraq on Friday. The Manaswala and Kothawala families belong to Dawoodi Bohra community. Burhanuddin's parents Yusuf and Lubaina were also injured in the incident. Manaswala, his wife Saida, son-in-law Yusuf, daughter Lubaina, grandson Burhanuddin and Kothawala family had gone on a pilgrimage to Karbala in Iraq through a private tour operator on May 24.

The bus in which they were travelling was hit by a blast near the border.

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