Body
of Iranian cleric flown out Friday
- colleague
THE Iranian cleric whose body was discovered
earlier this month in a shallow grave off the
Soesdyke/Linden Highway, was scheduled to be
buried yesterday, his colleague Abdul Kadir
said yesterday.
The cleric, Mohammed Hussein Ibrahimi, 35, was
kidnapped from outside the International
Islamic College of Advanced Studies, Brickdam
on April 2. He was director of the
institution.
According to Kadir, Ibrahimi's remains left
Guyana on Friday for Iran. The body was
scheduled to arrive there about 6:00 hrs
yesterday.
Kadir said that Ibrahimi's relatives and
members of the Muslim fraternity were to
perform `Janaaza' yesterday.
The dead man's wife, Shahanaz Ibrahimi, left
Guyana on Wednesday for Venezuela en route to
Iran to attend her husband's funeral.
The woman, who was pregnant with the couple's
first child when Ibrahami was kidnapped,
recently gave birth to a healthy baby.
On May 4, the police acted on a tip off and
visited a location just off the Soesdyke/Linden
Highway on the St. Cuthbert's Mission trail.
There, they dug up the cleric's partly
decomposed body. The body bore two gunshot
wounds to the head. Ibrahimi's hands and feet
were bound with duct tape and he was clad in
the clothes he was wearing when he was
abducted.
His colleagues identified him by a silver cap
on his dentures, and a silver ring he was
wearing.
The Iranian policemen for the International
Policing Organisation (Interpol) who were here
to investigate Ibrahimi's abduction have since
left the country.
Guyana Police Force spokesman, John Sauers,
told the Sunday Chronicle that the case is
still open and investigations are ongoing.
May
16, 2004
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