After the deadly police shots in Dortmund, a 16-year-old Senegalese was buried in his homeland.
Local media showed images of the funeral in the village of Ndiaffate on Friday morning.
As the mayor of Ndiaffate, Aissatou Ndiaye, told the German Press Agency, the 16-year-old was buried around 9 p.m. local time.
According to a spokesman, the city of Dortmund had paid for the transfer of the body.
As the appointed undertaker told the dpa, the coffin was brought from Dortmund to an airplane on Wednesday.
There was another prayer on site, which was attended by many mourners and representatives of the city.
Since there is no direct flight to Dakar, the body was not expected there until Thursday afternoon (local time).
According to Senegalese media, the body should then be taken to Ndiaffate immediately.
"BILD.de" had previously reported on the transfer.
According to Mayor Ndiaye, who claims to be a cousin of the 16-year-old who was shot, the youth was not an orphan, contrary to other findings by the German authorities.
"His father, mother, brothers and sisters are all alive and well," Ndiaye said.
The unaccompanied refugee died the Monday before last.
The public prosecutor's office in Dortmund and the police in Recklinghausen are reconstructing the events.
According to the investigation so far, the 16-year-old approached the police with a knife despite the use of pepper spray and tasers in the courtyard of a youth welfare facility.
A police officer stationed for security had fired his submachine gun six times, five bullets hit the youth.