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mourner
/ ˈɔːə /
noun
a person who mourns, esp at a funeral
(at US revivalist meetings) a person who repents publicly
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By mid-afternoon on Sunday, Israel's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir - who was recently sanctioned by the UK government for "inciting violence against Palestinians" - arrived in Bat Yam to meet mourners.
At Kian's funeral, the boy's mother was overheard in a video telling mourners: "Hear it from me myself on how the shooting happened, so they can't say it was by terrorists, because they're lying."
She also thanked the residents of Dyserth for their understanding as roads are closed to accommodate the funeral and mourners.
The coffin of her husband, Johnson Mabia, sat amid a crowd of stricken mourners in Limbe in Cameroon's South-West region - an area that had witnessed scenes like this many times before.
An imam stood nearby leading prayers for hundreds of mourners gathered behind him in orderly rows.
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