People react as they gather to meet a mourning motorcade and to pay the tribute to the memory of Uzbek late President Islam Karimov in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 3, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammadsharif Mamatkulov
ALMATY (Reuters) - Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan for the past quarter of a century, was buried in his home city of Samarkand on Saturday, leaving behind a power vacuum in a nation that serves as a bulwark against militant Islam in Central Asia.
Karimov, who was 78, died from a stroke. After a funeral rite in Samarkand's ancient Registan square attended by hundreds of men - some of whom were in tears - his body was buried at the city's Shah-i-Zinda cemetery, two attendees told Reuters.
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