thetimes.co.uk - Tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of Singapore yesterday to bid farewell to the country’s founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who died last week at 91.
Enduring torrential rain, Singaporeans chanted Mr Lee’s name as the coffin, draped in the red-and-white national flag, travelled along a nine-mile route through the city atop a two-wheeled gun carriage.
A 21-gun salute echoed out across the city and a ceremonial flypast took place, with one plane peeling off from the formation to symbolise a “missing man”.
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