Argentine football legend Diego Maradona was laid to rest beside the graves of his parents on Thursday after a private funeral on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n
As darkness fell, he was interred after a simple religious ceremony attended by around two dozen family and close friends in the leafy surrounds of the Bella Vista cemetery outside the capital Buenos Aires amid a global outpouring of grief.<\/p>\n
Police officers escorted the hearse carrying the body of Maradona to the cemetery and hundreds of fans lined up along the streets to send him off.<\/p>\n
The burial followed a day of high emotion that saw clashes between police and fans near the presidential palace in central Buenos Aires where Maradona lay in state in a closed casket for people to say their final farewells.<\/p>\n
Starting at dawn on Thursday, thousands of fans had formed a snaking line estimated at over 1.6 kilometers long through the streets of Buenos Aires near the plaza, after a night of mourning and reminiscing.<\/p>\n
Fans who got inside the palace \u2013 many missed out \u2013 threw soccer shirts, flowers and other items towards the casket.<\/p>\n
Maradona died of a heart attack on Wednesday aged 60.<\/p>\n
His death triggered mourning around the world but nowhere was it felt more fiercely than in a country that saw him as a national hero.<\/p>\n
Maradona’s coffin – draped in Argentina’s national flag and football shirt, bearing his trademark number 10 on the back – was on public display at the presidential palace on Thursday.<\/p>\n
By mid-afternoon queues stretched back for more than a kilometre, and police clashed with mourners as they tried to close off the palace in anticipation of the wake scheduled for 16:00 local time (19:00 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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