Millions of supporters attend funeral of Hezbollah's ex-chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut | Pics

Hezbollah ex-chief Hassan Nasrallah was buried in Beirut on Sunday, with hundreds attending funeral nearly five months after his death in an Israeli airstrike.

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Mourners react as a trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd at the beginning of a funeral procession in the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon on Sunday. (AP)

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An Israeli fighter jet flies over a Lebanese airforce Cessna plane during the funeral ceremony of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine in the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, (AP)

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Israeli fighter jets fly over the city during the funeral procession of Lebanon's former Hezbollah leaders, Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor, Hashem Safieddine, in Beirut. (AP)

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Supporters from Lebanon and other countries in the region, carrying pictures of Nasrallah and Hezbollah flags, filled the 55,000-seat Camille Chamoun Sports City stadium in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut. (AP)

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After the funeral ceremony, people joined a procession outside the stadium before burying Nasrallah nearby. A Lebanese security source estimated the crowd at about a million people. (AP)

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The killing of Nasrallah, who led the Shi'ite Muslim group through decades of conflict with Israel and oversaw its transformation into a military force with regional sway, was one of the opening salvos in an Israeli escalation that badly weakened Hezbollah. (AP)

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A Hezbollah supporter reacts during the funeral procession of Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor, Hashem Safieddine, at Nasrallah's burial site in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon on Sunday. (AP)

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The mass funeral is aimed at showing strength after Hezbollah emerged battered from last year's war with Israel, which killed most of its leadership and thousands of fighters, and wreaked destruction on south Lebanon (AP)

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People gather to attend the public funeral ceremony of Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed during Israeli airstrikes last year, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters)

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A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd at the beginning of a funeral procession in the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday. (AP)

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Mourners wave Hezbollah flags, right, as the trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd at the beginning of a funeral procession in the Sports City Stadium in Beirut Lebanon on Sunday. (AP)

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A Hezbollah supporter chants slogans during the funeral procession of Lebanon's former Hezbollah commander Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor, (AP)