SINGAPORE: Tens of thousands of mourners braved torrential rain, howitzers fired a 21-gun salute and jet fighters screamed across the sky on Sunday as Singapore staged a grand funeral for its founding leader Lee Kuan Yew.
“The light that has guided us all this years has been extinguished,” his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said in a state funeral at the National University of Singapore attended by Asia-Pacific leaders.
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