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The body of Oct. 22 gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau has been buried in Libya, the Citizen has learned.

The Embassy of Libya in Ottawa confirmed Friday that Zehaf-Bibeau’s body was sent to Libya last year. A family member in that country said the body was buried in mid-November.

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Zehaf-Bibeau’s cousin, Ashraf Zehaf, told the Citizen through a translator this week that the gunman’s father, Bulgasem Zehaf, travelled to Libya to bury his son.

“Regarding Bulgasem, he usually comes and visits Libya to check up on his family and to see them. But this time, it was for the burial of his son in his native country,” said Ashraf Zehaf, who lives in Zawiya, west of the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

In Ottawa, Libyan consular official Khalifa Alghuwel confirmed through his spokesman and translator that the body was released to Bulgasem Zehaf to take to the North African country.

“His parents took care of that. His father was here, and he took care of that. So the embassy stamped the (papers) he provided, and when the body was released, when it left, it was all family business that took care of that,” he said Friday.