Four children have been laid to rest one day after their father confessed to their murders.

Metro police believe Said Biyad, 42, killed his children between 6 and 8 Friday morning.

The four slain children were buried in Hardin County Saturday.

The funeral was held in Elizabethtown for 8-year-old Sidi – the only boy – 6-year-old Fatuma, 4-year-old Khadija and 2-year-old Goshany.

The family was Muslim and that faith requires that the dead be buried as soon as possible.

The service outside the Islamic Center was mostly quiet as the four small bodies - that had been ceremonially bathed and shrouded in white cloth - lay on gurneys as the men faced Mecca to pray.

Women, who under Islam are believed to be too emotional to participate, huddled together in the distance.

As men prepared the four graves, one relative said he is still trying to understand their tragic deaths.

"He was someone who liked his kids. I can't imagine what happened, I don't know what happened," said Hussein Issek.

Islam teaches not to display excessive grief after death and friends and family didn't.

There were no elaborate headstones or grave markers in the Muslim cemetery where the children were buried. Simple pieces of wood marked with the children's names were placed at their resting places.

Many of the Somalians at the service said they were still trying to understand the children's horrific deaths.

"I hope that people will not do the same as this man, this bad man," said Hussein Issek.

The two older children went to Stonestreet Elementary School. A spokesperson for the school said that grief counselors are available for the children's classmates.

Members of Louisville's Islamic community will gather Sunday to remember the victims.

The public is invited to the service at 2 p.m. outside building 45 and 46 at Iroquois Homes.