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28 March 2024

Video: Dead man mourned with music

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Residents of a village in Egypt beat the drums, blew the flute and danced on the roads as they toured the tiny town. It was not a wedding but a funeral.

A YouTube film published on social media showed hundreds of men smiled and danced to the music as they carried the dead man Mohammed Saleh in a coffin and headed for the cemetery in their village Banja in the Eastern Nile town of Sohag.

Newspapers in Egypt described it as one of the weirdest funerals in Egypt and said the music was to cheer the dead man who they believed to be like a saint.