Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who authorities say were responsible for a mass shooting that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, were buried Tuesday. Beverly White reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. (Published Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015) 
 
 Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack, were buried in Southern California Tuesday afternoon, representatives for Farook’s family confirmed. 
 
 Both David Chesley and Mohammad Abuershaid, attorneys for the Farook family, declined to give the exact location of where they were buried. 
 
 Farook, 28, and his wife, Malik, 27, killed 14 people and injured 21 others at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, where Farook's colleagues with the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health were renting space for a celebration on Dec. 2. 

 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who opened fire on a San Bernardino holiday party earlier this month, were buried Tuesday in a quiet, graveside funeral. 
 
 Tashfeen Malik, (L), and Syed Farook are pictured passing through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in this July 27, 2014 handout photo obtained by Reuters December 8, 2015. REUTERS/US Customs and Border Protection/Handout via Reuters 
 
 Many of those who attended mosque with the couple refused to attend, two mosque members said. 
 
 U.S.-born Farook, 28, and his Pakistani-born wife Malik, 29, killed 14 people and injured 21, in what U.S. officials have called a terrorist attack. They died later that day in a gun battle with police. 
 
 The funeral followed traditional Islamic rituals, said an attendee. At a Muslim cemetery hours away from San Bernardino, the bodies were cleansed according to Islamic rules, wrapped in white cloth and buried. 
 
 The funeral attendee and another person familiar with the situation, both of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said it took a week to find a graveyard willing to accept the bodies. 
 
 They said the husband and wife were ultimately buried in a cemetery far from San Bernardino, after a closer facility refused to take the bodies because of fears the graves would be desecrated. Neither person would identify the cemetery where the couple was buried. 
 
 Muslims are usually buried within 24 hours of dying, but family members and community members had to wait for the bodies to be released by law enforcement officials and then for permission from a cemetery. 
 
 Neither source would say which cemetery refused to bury the couple, but a woman at the Islamic Cemetery & Masjid in Adelanto, Calif. – less than an hour from San Bernardino – confirmed the cemetery had refused to bury the bodies, in part out of a fear of backlash, but also for “other reasons”. She declined to give her name. 
 
 The family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two men accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing attack in 2013, faced similar difficulty finding a place to bury his body after the attack. Graveyards in Massachusetts refused to accept the body, and the family ultimately buried him in an unmarked grave in Virginia. 
 
 About 10 people went to the funeral, the attendee said, including members of Farook’s family and people who used to pray with him at mosques in San Bernardino County. 
 
 But most Muslims in the community refused to participate in the burial or perform the funeral prayer, called Salat Al-Janazah, according to the source who did not attend the funeral. 
 
 “I don’t forgive him myself,” said the mosque-goer who did not attend the funeral. Still, he added, “I pray mercy for him, and we Muslims know God is merciful. But he’s also just.” 
 
 Farook and Malik left behind a 6-month-old daughter, who has been in state custody since the Dec. 2 massacre. Farook’s sister and brother-in-law, Saira and Farhan Khan, have said they hope to adopt their niece. 
 
 An attorney for family members did not immediately return a call seeking comment for this story. 
 
 (This version of the story corrects first paragraph to remove reference to FBI guarding funeral) 

 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The bodies of a husband and wife behind the California shootings that killed 14 people have been released by authorities and buried. 
 
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 FILE - In this July 27, 2014, file photo, provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Farook, as they passed through O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The... (Associated Press) 
 
 Attorneys for family members told NBC News Wednesday that the Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were buried on Tuesday afternoon in Southern California. 
 
 The attorneys, David Chesley and Mohammad Abuershaid, confirmed the burial to NBC News, but gave no further details. 
 
 San Bernardino Supervising Deputy Coroner Randy Emon told The Associated Press that the bodies had been released, but said he was not authorized to say who claimed them or give any other information. 
 
 Farook and Malik were killed in a shootout with authorities hours after the Dec. 2 shootings at a social services center.
– San Bernardino shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik have been buried in southern California, but it isn't clear exactly where. The attorneys representing the couple's families say only that it took about a week to find a cemetery willing to accept the bodies and that the pair were buried on Tuesday afternoon, per NBC News and the AP. Attendees tell Reuters about 10 people gathered for a quiet funeral at a Muslim cemetery hours away from San Bernardino, guarded by FBI agents, which followed traditional Islamic rituals. Farook and Malik died Dec. 2 in a shootout with police. Some of their 14 victims have yet to be buried.