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A group of local Sikhs have been allowed to carry out a cremation in Kabul.According to the BBC, the authorities intervened after Muslims in the Old City stopped Sikhs from burning a body at their traditional cremation site in the Qalacha area.
Kabul, Sept.18 : A group of local Sikhs have been allowed to carry out a cremation in Kabul.According to the BBC, the authorities intervened after Muslims in the Old City stopped Sikhs from burning a body at their traditional cremation site in the Qalacha area.
Sikh mourners carried the body to the presidential palace and UN headquarters until the chief of police escorted them back and the cremation went ahead.
Muslims near the site had complained about the smell from funeral pyres.
ANI
