Funeral of Secretary General Chong, 'Vietnam's Top Leader for 14 Years,' Held as a State Funeral

On the 26th (local time), the funeral of Nguyen Phu Trong, the top leader of Vietnam and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, was held at the National Funeral Hall in Hanoi, Vietnam. The coffin of General Secretary Trong was loaded onto a hearse and paraded through the streets of Hanoi.

The funeral of Nguyen Phu Trong, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam who ruled Vietnam as the 'number one' for 14 years, was held as a state funeral on the 26th (local time).

At 1 p.m. that day, a farewell ceremony was held at the National Funeral Hall in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, attended by the funeral committee including Acting General Secretary To Lam, President of the State (ranked 2nd in the state hierarchy), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (ranked 3rd in the state hierarchy), and the bereaved family.

In his eulogy, President Lam mourned, "The passing of General Secretary Trong is a huge and irreparable loss to the Party, the state, and the people."

Following this, General Secretary Trong's coffin, draped with the Vietnamese national flag, was placed in a glass case and loaded onto a hearse shaped like a cannon. As a military truck pulled the hearse through the streets of Hanoi, countless citizens lining the roads bid farewell to the deceased.

With the Vietnamese government declaring the previous day and this day as a two-day national mourning period, tens of thousands of mourners flocked to the funeral hall from the day before to pay their respects.

When a queue several kilometers long formed around the funeral hall until 10 p.m., the end of the visitation hours the previous day, the visitation hours were extended until midnight.

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