Filipinos bid farewell to former president Benigno Aquino; popular leader laid to rest amid outpouring of grief, tributes

Philippine military officers (white) and honor guards together with family members march alongside the carriage carrying the urn of the late president Benigno Aquino during the funeral mass at a memorial park in Manila on Saturday (June 26, 2021). Aquino was laid to rest in a Manila cemetery on Saturday beside his parents, two of the South-East Asian country's democracy icons.- AFP

* Former president Aquino buried beside parents; * Mourners line along roads, wave yellow ribbons; Catholic archbishop calls for return of government decency

MANILA, June 26 (Reuters): Philippine former president Benigno Aquino was laid to rest in a Manila cemetery on Saturday beside his parents, two of the South-East Asian country's democracy icons.