The Sky Burial Ritual in Kalash Chitral, Pakistan Keeping Human Corpse in open Coffins 16-Sep-2016

Sky Burial is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed open to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds. It was practiced in Kalash Valley till late 1990s. Afterwards it was abandoned and now corpse are buried. The Bamburate graveyard shown in this video is having remains of human placed over here in open coffins. By time the video was recorded (16-Sep-2016) few leg bones were lying open and rest of the parts i.e. skull, ribs, etc have been diminished. Grave of Spanish Zoologist Jordi Fedreco Magraner is also in this graveyard. He used to visit here frequently and lived in a rented house. In 2002 he was murdered and then buried here. Kalash ka Qabristan Chitral ka Qabristan Bamburate ka Qabristan Kafiristan ka Qabristan