A supporter sits beside a picture of former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III beside his tomb on Saturday. AP
MANILA: Philippine former president Benigno Aquino was laid to rest in a Manila cemetery on Saturday beside his parents, two of the Southeast Asian country’s democracy icons.
Hundreds of mourners in black and white, some also wearing yellow the colour associated with the Aquino family and a 1986 revolution that toppled a dictator ribbons and face masks, attended a funeral mass and burial ceremony.
Aquino, president from 2010 to 2016, died at age 61 in a Manila hospital on Thursday of kidney failure as a result of diabetes.
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