Unconfirmed reports have suggested Pistorius mistook

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Last Updated : Feb 19 2013 | 3:20 PM IST
Steenkamp for an intruder, while other reports said she was beaten with a cricket bat before being shot multiple times. In an interview published on Monday, Steenkamp's mother described Reeva's death as "horrendous." "Why my little girl? Why did this happen? Why did he do this?" June Steenkamp told the Times of South Africa. "She had so much of herself to give and now all that is gone. Just like that, she is gone... In the blink of an eye and a single breath, the most beautiful person who ever lived is no longer here." Steenkamp, who had been going out with Pistorius since late last year, will be laid to rest in a private ceremony at a Port Elizabeth crematorium with an on-site chapel that holds less than 100 mourners. Reeva's cloth-draped coffin bearing white flowers was carried into the chapel by six people. It arrived in a black hearse. A few mourners have arrived for the ceremony. "The memorial itself inside the chapel is family and friends and then there will be a statement afterwards for the media," her uncle Michael Steenkamp told AFP. The family bore the runner no grudge but wanted clarity about Steenkamp's death. "The family haven't got that animosity or hatred or anything like that but questions, and we realise that it's going to come out," he said. Sharon Steenkamp, her cousin, told local newspaper The Herald that none of the family at Steenkamp's parents home had met Pistorius. "No, we are not even thinking about Oscar. All our focus is on Reeva, her life and what has happened to her. She never had an enemy in the world and was a super person," she said. MORE (AFP) PDS ATK 02191512 NNNN
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First Published: Feb 19 2013 | 3:20 PM IST

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