Filipinos bid farewell to former president Benigno Aquino

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 Southeast Asian country’s democracy icons.

Hundreds of mourners in black and white, some also wearing yellow – the colour associated with the Aquino family and a 1986 revolution that toppled a dictator – ribbons and face masks, attended a funeral mass and burial ceremony.

Aquino, president from 2010 to 2016, died at age 61 in a Manila hospital on Thursday of kidney failure as a result of diabetes. read more

“To the man we were so blessed to…