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Funeral Held for Four Brothers Killed in Abu Dhabi Crash After Liwa Festival Trip

Community support helped secure a Dubai burial, with the parents still under hospital care.

Overview

  • Hundreds attended funeral prayers in Dubai on Tuesday before the boys were laid to rest side by side at Al Qusais Cemetery.
  • The children—Ashaz, 14, Ammar, 12, Azam, 7, and Ayash, 5—died after a crash in the early hours of January 4 on the Abu DhabiDubai motorway near Ghantoot.
  • Three brothers and the family’s domestic worker, identified as Bushra, died at the scene, and the fourth brother died in hospital on Monday evening.
  • The parents were injured; the father was discharged to attend the funeral, while the mother and their 10-year-old daughter continue treatment at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City in Abu Dhabi.
  • Welfare groups coordinated procedures that allowed the children to be buried in the UAE, and the maid’s remains were repatriated to Kerala on Monday.