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Most didn’t know him, yet hundreds of mourners from the Gambian community bid farewell yesterday to a countryman tragically cut down in a brutal stickup at a Bronx gas station.

Lamin Sillah was memorialized at the First Avenue Funeral Home in East Harlem, while the hoodie-clad cowardly gunman remained at large.

Sillah’s uncle, Alhagie Ebou Cham, 54, president of the United Gambians Association, praised Sillah, 28, who was studying to be an accountant and worked to send money to his wife and relatives back home in the small village of Kuntaur.

“His family [in Gambia] is in a lot of pain. They are so far away, and they feel like there is nothing they can do. This is very hard for them,” said Cham.

“He was a Gambian success story. He just wanted to better himself and do right by his family,” said friend Muhammed Kijera. “Most of his family are not educated, so it was a big deal for him to have the opportunity.”

Sillah’s body will be flown back to his native country for burial.