About a hundred people joined a vigil held in front of city hall in Thorold, Ont., to honour an 18-year-old woman who died in a recent car crash.

They were also protesting the city's decision, at the last-minute, to deny her family's request for Muslim burial accommodations at a public cemetery.

The vigil later moved inside the city hall, filling the lobby as city councillors and staff walked past to attend a council meeting.

Alina Masud lived in Thorold and studied psychology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. She hoped to work in criminal psychology some day and was the middle daughter of three.

Masud died in a collision on Highway 406 on the evening of Dec. 3.

The family's imam, Asad Mahmood, and the director of the city-owned Lakeview Cemetery agreed she could be buried o

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