On Saturdays, we have services and bury the dead and have funeral rites and on Sundays we have thanksgiving services.
One local Shia leader, Qayyum Changezi, told AFP the protesters "will not bury the dead until a targeted operation is launched".
The refusal to bury the dead is an extreme protest in Islamic society, where people are normally buried the same day they die.
But some businesses are cashing in on the plague: contractors have tripled the rental for earth-moving equipment needed to bury the dead pigs.
In addition to bathing, saunas would have been used for chores requiring high heat, such as curing meats, and practices requiring sterile environments, such as preparing to bury the dead.
These volunteers -- also Shiites with access to the Health Ministry -- are compelled by conscience and faith and take it upon themselves to bury the dead in holy anonymity.
The president of the Shia Conference, Syed Dawood Agha, told the BBC that his community would not bury its dead till the army had given an assurance it would take administrative control of the city.
Here are the catacombs, where Christians used to bury their dead, in a kind of warren-like after-dead ghetto outside the city walls.
The wider cull was postponed on Tuesday after farmers protested against plans to bury 2, 500 dead sheep at the south Armagh beauty spot Slieve Gullion Forest Park.
Last week the Welsh government extended the period in which rules were being relaxed to allow farmers to bury dead animals on farmland because of the extreme weather.
But let us pause to bury our dead and stand by the wounded as their struggle with the new reality of their lives.
Some businesses are heroically pulling themselves out of the rubble, even as they bury their dead.
He arrived at the summit declaring "The FTAA is dead and we are going to bury it here".
But the Bishnoi, a caste of farmers in Rajasthan, cover their dead in salt and bury them in an unmarked trench.
As they bury their dead and watch efforts to recover more bodies, local residents fear that more violence from the conflict raging in the neighboring country will spill over into the town.
Farmers in Wales looking for dead livestock as the snow melt continues have been given a fourth and final week to locate and bury their animals.
BBC: Wales snow: Farmers' 4th and final week to bury animals
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