SINGAPORE: A hearse carrying the body of Zimbabwe's ex-president Robert Mugabe left a funeral parlor in Singapore on Wednesday bound for an airport from where it will be flown back home for burial.

Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who swept to power after Zimbabwe's independence from Britain and went on to rule for 37 years until he was ousted in 2017, died on Friday, aged 95.

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