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There was so much pain in Peshawar that even the gravedigger cried.
A day after the Pakistan Taliban slaughtered 132 students in a local school, Taj Muhammed lowered dozens of rough wooden coffins into the unforgiving earth at the city’s largest graveyard.
“During my more than 30 years of doing this job, I have buried countless, maybe hundreds or thousands of bodies here in this vast graveyard, but as I remember I wept only when I was burying my mother several years ago,” the 43-year-old gravedigger told the Associated Press.
This, Muhammed said, “was the first time that while burying those small bodies I couldn’t control my tears.”
“I cannot explain it but I wept,” he said. “I know it was against the rules of our profession, but it was the moment to break the rules.”
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Ref: New York Daily News
There was so much pain in Peshawar that even the gravedigger cried.
A day after the Pakistan Taliban slaughtered 132 students in a local school, Taj Muhammed lowered dozens of rough wooden coffins into the unforgiving earth at the city’s largest graveyard.
“During my more than 30 years of doing this job, I have buried countless, maybe hundreds or thousands of bodies here in this vast graveyard, but as I remember I wept only when I was burying my mother several years ago,” the 43-year-old gravedigger told the Associated Press.
This, Muhammed said, “was the first time that while burying those small bodies I couldn’t control my tears.”
“I cannot explain it but I wept,” he said. “I know it was against the rules of our profession, but it was the moment to break the rules.”
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Ref: New York Daily News
