A victim of Saturday’s cemetery attack, Noor Aqa, was in Kabul from the UK visiting family when killed in Saturday’s cemetery bombing.

Aqa, who has been living in the UK for a number of years, was in Kabul visiting family.

According to one of his relatives, Aqa is survived by eight sons and daughters – some of whom are very young.

On Saturday three suicide bombers detonated their explosives at the funeral ceremony of Salem Ezadyar, the son of an Afghan senator, who had been killed on Friday when security forces opened fire on demonstrators.  

The funeral ceremony was attended by high ranking government officials and former jihadi figures, but most of the victims were civilians.

Mawlawi Jalal, a member of Afghanistan’s National Ulema Council, Halim Khan Samdai, former deputy of the Attorney General’s Office, and two bodyguards of the Panjshir police chiefwere among at least 20 people killed on Saturday.

“Lots of people were killed and a few bodies have been transferred to the provinces,” said Romal Khoram, a relative of a victim.

At least seven victims have been buried in the same cemetery.

The gravedigger at the cemetery, Jawid, who has worked there for 14 years, said he has been digging graves since Saturday afternoon for all those killed at the funeral.

“We buried bodies all night,” said Jawid.

According to the Ministry of Public Health, 87 people were wounded in the three back-to-back explosions, while family members of the victims said a number of the wounded are in critical condition.