Saudi government has reportedly refused 12 dead bodies of Somalis to be buried or to hand over to their people in Somalia.
The bodies died in Jiddah and Da’if cities in Saudi Arabia differently and the Saudi government rejected to be buried or taken to Somalia.
The bodies were Somalis who lived illegally in Saudi Arabia and some of them have been in fridges more than nine months.
Ibrahim Yusuf Mohamud, the father of a daughter that died in Saudi Arabia told mereeg reporter based in Mogadishu that his daughter died in Saudi Arabia three months ago, he added that the Saudi government refused him to hand his daughter or bury her.
Sheik Mohamud Abdulle Arif, an influential Somali cleric said it is un-Islamic not to bury a Muslim person that has died.
The Saudi government is one of the biggest Islamic countries and the Somalis who fled from the chaos in their country meet harassment from the Saudi government.
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