Pakistani teenager Ibrahim Muhammad, whose body was found nearly three weeks after he had gone missing, has been laid to rest in the United Arab Emirates’ Dubai at an emotional funeral.

“I still cannot accept what has happened to my son,” her mother told Gulf News on Saturday as she could accept that her Muhammad was found dead the same night he had gone missing after a fall from a building in Rashidiya in Ajman.

He was buried in the large graveyard in Al Muhaisnah in Dubai, three weeks after he had gone missing in Ajman.

Muhammad, 17, was a Grade 12 student of the Pakistani school in Ajman. He left his home in Al Rawda 1 on April 12 following an argument with his mother. During his disappearance, Ibrahim was last seen wearing a black shirt and carrying money he received as Eidi during the recent festival celebrations.

His disappearance was second after another 17-year-old from Pakistan in Sharjah on April 14, who was eventually reunited with his family after five days.

Several teachers and students from the school attended the funeral of Ibrahim after Friday prayers.

“Ever since we heard of his disappearance, we had been discussing it and hoped that he would return home safely. We were all shocked to hear that he is no more,” Niaz Ahmad, who taught him mathematics and physics in Grade 12, said about the news of Ibrahim’s death.

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The teacher said that he was disheartened to know how some teenagers have become extremely sensitive and disappeared from their homes “for trivial reasons”.

“Some kids of his age also have also gone missing [in the past], but they all came back later. Initially, I thought he might have gone to one of his friends. I was hoping that my son would also come back safe and I was praying for him to return before his board exam starts. It was on the first day of his board exam that I got to know that he will never return. I was really shattered,” Muhammad’s mother said

The victim’s younger brother, Anas, said he was missing him.