Manmohan Singh: Former India PM mourned in state funeral

Mourners gathered across Delhi to pay respects to a former PM many credit for India's economic reform.

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Singh led the country from 2004 to 2014 and was considered the architect of India's economic liberalisation. He died on Thursday aged 92.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was present at the ceremony on Saturday. He has called Singh one of the country's "most distinguished leaders".

Mourners turned out across the capital to pay their respects as Singh's coffin, flanked by an honour guard, was taken through the city to the cremation grounds.

His eldest daughter lit his funeral pyre at the crematorium in front of Modi, President Droupadi Murmu, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar and senior members of Singh's Congress Party.

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