THOUSANDS of people turned out today to pay their respects to a 15-year-old Bradford boy who died after the car he was travelling in was involved in a crash.

Saliq Malik, of Manor House Gardens, Eccleshill, died from his injuries and this afternoon around 4,000 people turned out for his funeral at the Madni Mosque in Thornbury Road.

Among the mourners were teachers fromHanson Academy who taught Saliq, and also those who taught him at primary school, where he had been successful at sports, including football.

The funeral was followed by a burial at Cemetery Road in Bradford.

Saliq died after he was riding as a passenger in a Volkswagen Golf car which crashed in Gipton Street, Bradford, on Friday, September 12.

The crash remains the subject of a police investigation and also left a second passenger injured. There were no other vehicles involved.

His father, Amjad, had accompanied him to Hanson Academy on the morning of the crash and then returned home to sleep before an expected night shift as a taxi driver.

He was alerted to the tragedy when police arrived at the family home and was at Leeds General Infirmary with other family members when Saliq died.