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Fidel Castro laid to rest in Santiago de Cuba

Monday, 05 December 2016 2:08 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 05 December 2016 2:11 AM ]

Cuba's President Raul Castro (C) places the box containing the ashes of Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro into a boulder at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, in Santiago de Cuba, on December 4, 2016. (Photo by Reuters)

Alasdair Baverstock
Press TV, Havana

Late Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been laid to rest after a funeral in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba where he first began his 1956 revolution. The funeral was attended by heads of state and senior officials from across the world.

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