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  • 13 years ago
More than 30,000 mourners have attended the funeral in South Korea of their "saviour", Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon.

In a ceremony on Saturday that had all the trappings of a state funeral, Moon's carved, red-lacquer coffin was carried by men in military-style uniforms into a stadium at the church headquarters in Gapyeong, just east of the capital Seoul.

Moon died on September 3 of complications from pneumonia. His church claims to have three million members.

Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports from Seoul, South Korea.
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