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50,000 Indian Muslims offer Eid prayer

NEW DELHI: More than 50,000 Muslims, including children and women, gathered at India's largest mosque in the capital New Delhi to celebrate the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramazan here on Saturday.

The Muslims braved a dense early morning fog and the cold to participate in an hour-long prayer held at the 17th-century Jama Masjid mosque to mark the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr.

The prayer was addressed by the chief priest of the mosque Syed Abdullah Bukhari.

All the roads within a three-kilometre (1.8-mile) radius of the mosque were cut-off by tens of thousands of Muslims.

A majority could not get near the mosque and stood on the roads to attend the prayer.

After the prayer Muslims distributed money and food to poor people. APP