Pele Laid To Rest

Brazilian football icon Pele was laid to rest in Santos, the city of his former club as thousand of mourners lined the streets in a final farewell to the greatest. The three-time World Cup winner died on December 29th at the age of 82. People crowded the streets on Tuesday as Pele's coffin was carried on a fire truck to a private family funeral after lying in state for 24 hours at the Santos stadium. Brazil's Government declared three days of national mourning after his death, and the country's new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva travelled to Santos to pay his respects. Covered with a Brazilian flag, Pele's coffin was carried on a fire truck through the packed roads of fans and the procession also passed the house where his 100-year-old mother, Celeste Arantes, still lives. The funeral cortege ended at the port city's Memorial Cemetery, where a Catholic funeral service was held before Pele is interred in a 10-storey mausoleum that holds the Guinness World Record as the tallest cemetery on Earth.