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More than 5,000 mourners attended the funeral of a taxi driver killed alongside five others in the Lee Bank Middleway horror crash.

The huge crowd turned out to pay their respects to father-of-six Imtiaz Mohammed at the Central Mosque in Belgrave Middleway on Friday.

It was believed to be one of the biggest ever funerals at the Central Mosque, with many mourners unable to get inside.

The hearse was decked out in flowers including 'husband' spelt out.

The cabbie's heartbroken family wiped away tears as they walked behind the hearse before it was driven to Handsworth Cemetery for burial.

His cousin Yousuf Ali Khan said: "It was an incredible turnout with thousands of mourners paying their respects inside the mosque and many more outside.

"Imtiaz would have been proud of the turnout and his family are grateful they have been able to bury him and lay him to rest."

Mr Mohammed, 33, died after his black taxi was in collision with an Audi S3 on Lee Bank Middleway, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Three men in the Audi were killed and a fourth man left seriously injured.

Mr Mohammed, from Golden Hillock Road, had one son and five daughters.

He was on his last fare of the night when the crash happened.

His father Ikhtiar Mohammed spoke movingly about his son following his death.

He said: "He was a happy joyful person. He was too good. I cried because my house feels so empty without him."

The couple who died in his taxi were Lucy Davis, aged 42 and her boyfriend Lee Jenkins, aged 42.

Kasar Jehangir, Mohammed Fashar and Tauqeer Hussain were the men who died travelling in the Audi.

A fourth man was seriously injured and remains in hospital.