Saddam buried in home village

Saddam Hussein was buried last night in Awja, his home village in northern Iraq.

Saddam Hussein was buried last night in his home village in northern Iraq.

Before burial, his body was washed and covered in a white shroud in observance of Muslim rite.

A source close to leading local Sunni Muslim clerics said that a funeral service was held at a mosque in Tikrit, Saddam's former power base.

The body was then taken to the village of Awja and laid to rest in a religious hall in the presence of a small group of local officials and tribal leaders.

A source close to Saddam's family has confirmed that his remains have been interred at a family plot in a cemetery in Awja, where his sons Uday and Qusay, killed by US troops in 2003, also lie.

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