From Al Jazeera staff on the ground in Syria:
In Homs one of the mourners in the funeral of Fawaz Harake, who died of a gunshot wound after being unable to reach hospital yesterday, has told Al Jazeera that the funeral procession of around 6,000 people is now heading to a graveyard inside the city where security forces have deployed to prevent bodies being buried.
“We signed the papers last night agreeing with security to bury him in Tal al-Nasr [a village outside Homs],” said the mourner. “But after noon prayers we decided to bury him in Qatib graveyard inside the city. This has become the graveyard for martyrs.”
Several mourners in Homs have said secret police and the governor are requiring them to agree to bury their dead outside the city in Tal al-Nasr, an apparent effort by authorities to limit a repeat of previous Saturdays where large funeral processions have grown into anti-regime protests.
As Al Jazeera reported in its news blog yesterday, the car carrying Harake was shot at by security forces as it tried to get him to a clinic. “If we had got to the clinic in time he would still be alive today,” said the mourner, who was driving the car.
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