: Scores of people in Kunzar town of north Kashmirs Baramulla district held funeral prayer in absentia for the three militants who attacked French satirical tabloid Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people in including ten journalists dead.
Witnesses said that soon after Friday prayers, people offered funeral prayer in absentia for the two brothers linked with Al Qaeda who attacked French journal for publishing blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
The people hailed the attackers and called them martyrs who, they said, achieved martyrdom while countering the insulting act of the Charlie Hebdo.
After offering funeral, a protest demonstration was staged outside Grand Mosque Hamdania in Kunzar. The protesters condemned the reproduction of the insulting cartoons by Charlie Hebdo, eyewitnesses said.
Meanwhile, a group of youth staged a protest against the blasphemous caricatures outside Iqra Masjid in Sarai Bala here, reports said.
