Former US President George HW Bush has returned to Washington for a final time, to lie in state at the US Capitol.
His coffin had earlier left Texas to a 21‑gun salute and was carried to Washington on board Air Force One ‑ temporarily renamed Special Air Mission 41 in homage to the late president.
Bush will lie in state in the rotunda until his funeral.
His body will be buried at his home in Texas alongside wife, Barbara.
Bush, who served as the 41st US president between 1989 and 1993, died late on Saturday in Texas at the age of 94.
He had been receiving treatment for a form of Parkinson's disease and had been admitted to hospital with a blood infection in April.
[Source: BBC]
