Farewell, Lee Kuan Yew

More than 100,000 people lined Singapore’s streets to bid farewell to its founding father Lee Kuan Yew, Sunday. Torrential rain soaked the crowds as howitzers fired a 21-gun salute to the country’s first prime minister and jet fighters screamed across the sky in a grand farewell normally reserved for a head of state. Officials said 454,687 people – in a nation with just 3.34 million citizens – had paid their last respects to Lee, 91, before his wake ended in parliament. He kept the position for 31 years, ruling with an iron fist to transform Singapore from a sleepy British colonial outpost into a gleaming metropolis that now enjoys one of the world’s highest standards of living.

The state funeral in photos.