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Outpouring of grief as Maradona buried

Amid highly emotional, at times chaotic, scenes - Argentina has bid farewell to Diego Armando Maradona, the footballing giant who died at the age of 60. Disturbances broke out as tens-of-thousands of mourners queued to see him lying in state at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. At one point police had to remove his coffin to another room after hundreds of fans broke through barriers and ran through the Casa Rosada. Later, Maradona was buried next to his parents on the outskirts of Argentina鈥檚 capital, from where journalist Daniel Politi told 成人快手 Newsday more.

(Pic: Fans surround the funeral procession of Diego Maradona during its departure from the Casa Rosada; Credit: EPA)

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