Mr Lee Kuan Yew begins final journey across Singapore
[SINGAPORE] Singapore's founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has embarked on his final journey through Singapore.
At 12.40pm on Sunday, March 29, his coffin left Parliament House, where he had been lying in state since March 25.
Eight pallbearers carried Mr Lee's casket and placed it onto a ceremonial gun carriage that consists of a 25-pounder howitzer gun on which a tempered glass case is mounted. The carriage is driven by a ceremonial Land Rover.
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