Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a United States commando raid in Syria, was buried in sea and religious rites according to Islamic customs were administered, Reuters reported quoting three officials.
The officials Reuters talked to did not disclose where the rituals were performed or how long it lasted.
The feared terrorist leader died like a coward, "whimpering and crying" when cornered in a dead-end tunnel by US Special Forces in Syria, and will "never again harm an innocent man, woman or child", President Donald Trump announced on Sunday.
The Special Forces flew in on Saturday night to Al-Baghdadi's compound and blasted their way through killing his terrorists and he ran into the tunnel with his three children pursued by the soldiers and a dog, Trump said in a special address from the White House in Washington.
When he found there was no escape, the terrorist leader set off his suicide vest, killing himself and his three children collapsing the tunnel, Trump said.
The only casualty on the US side was a "beautiful, talented dog" that was injured in the blast when it chased him into the tunnel, he added.
As the calipate he set up in Syria collapsed in March under attacks from Kurdish fighters backed by the US and by others, Al-Baghdadi was on the run.
The self-styled Caliph, who was in his late 40s and carried a bounty of at least $25 million, presided over the brutal caliphate he set up in Syria and Iraq enforcing a fundamentalist code and killing thousands.
The IS broadcast propaganda videos of victims, including Americans, being beheaded by Al-Baghdadi's men in a threatening message to the world.
India's National Investigation Agency has said it had arrested 127 IS sympathisers from across India since 2014 during probes into 28 cases, IANS reported on Sunday.
