Lebanon lays ex-PM Hariri to rest
Download The body of the former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, has been laid to rest inside a mosque in central Beirut. Prayers are being said for his soul. Thousands of Lebanese attended the funeral in the heart of the capital, rebuilt thanks to the efforts of Mr Hariri. Christians, Muslims and Druze were all grieving for the death of the Sunni Muslim billionaire who symbolised the revival of Lebanon after years of bloody civil war. Earlier this morning thousands of mourners had gathered outside the home of Mr Hariri and chanted anti-Syrian slogans, calling for Syrian troops to withdraw from the country. Syria has been blamed for the death of Mr Hariri, but the Syrian Vice President, Abd-al-Halim Khaddam, attended the ceremony. The Lebanese government was not formally represented. laid to restburied soulthe spiritual part of a person which some people believe continues to exist after the person dies the heart ofthe centre of grievingfeeling sad because someone has died symbolisedrepresented something revivalwhen something becomes more popular or active again chantedrepeated something continuously withdrawto move out blamedto blame: to say or think that someone was responsible for doing something wrong representedto represent: to attend an event officially on behalf of someone or a group of people (in this case the Lebanese government)
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The body of the former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, has been laid to rest inside a mosque in central Beirut. Prayers are being said for his soul. Thousands of Lebanese attended the funeral in the heart of the capital, rebuilt thanks to the efforts of Mr Hariri.
Christians, Muslims and Druze were all grieving for the death of the Sunni Muslim billionaire who symbolised the revival of Lebanon after years of bloody civil war.
Earlier this morning thousands of mourners had gathered outside the home of Mr Hariri and chanted anti-Syrian slogans, calling for Syrian troops to withdraw from the country. Syria has been blamed for the death of Mr Hariri, but the Syrian Vice President, Abd-al-Halim Khaddam, attended the ceremony. The Lebanese government was not formally represented.
laid to restburied
soulthe spiritual part of a person which some people believe continues to exist after the person dies
the heart ofthe centre of
grievingfeeling sad because someone has died
symbolisedrepresented something
revivalwhen something becomes more popular or active again
chantedrepeated something continuously
withdrawto move out
blamedto blame: to say or think that someone was responsible for doing something wrong
representedto represent: to attend an event officially on behalf of someone or a group of people (in this case the Lebanese government)