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QUEBEC — The shooting in Quebec City’s mosque over the weekend has helped highlight the fact the city doesn’t have a place to bury people of the Muslim faith.

In fact, the five Muslim cemeteries in the province of Quebec are all located in the Montreal area, the head of a non-profit Islamic burial association said Wednesday.

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Hadjira Belkacem said families of Muslims who die outside Montreal have to deliver the body for burial in Quebec’s largest city or pay thousands of dollars to have it shipped to the deceased’s country of origin.

“It’s really a catastrophic situation,” she said in an interview.

Five of the six men who were murdered in Quebec City on Sunday will be buried overseas, said Mohamed Yangui, president of the targeted mosque.

The bodies will be flown to Algeria, Tunisia, Guinea and Morocco.

Mamadou Tanou Barry, originally from Guinea, will be buried in Montreal, said a member of Quebec City’s Guinean association.