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Over 2,000 gather in San Diego to mourn three men killed in mosque attack
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- The three men killed in Monday’s shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego were remembered as heroes at the memorial.
- Mourners, including police officers in uniform, stood in rows for the Islamic funeral prayer, or Janazah, on Thursday.
- The bodies of the three men — 51-year-old Amin Abdullah, 78-year-old Mansour Kaziha and 57-year-old Nadir Awad — lay beneath cloth, underneath a white canopy.
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The three men killed in Monday’s shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego were remembered as heroes at the memorial.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo People attend a prayer service for the victims of a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego [Mike Blake/Reuters]By Reuters Published On 21 May 202621 May 2026More than 2,000 people have gathered in a park in San Diego, California, to mourn a security guard and two other men murdered as they tried to stop this week’s attack on the city’s largest mosque.
Mourners, including police officers in uniform, stood in rows for the Islamic funeral prayer, or Janazah, on Thursday.
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