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US Senator John McCain laid to rest at US Naval Academy

US Senator John McCain laid to rest at US Naval Academy
John McCain's funeral procession heads to the cemetery at the US Naval Academy[Photo:BBC News]

US Senator John McCain has been buried at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, after a small private ceremony.

A military flypast was performed with the squadron one plane short, to symbolise the dead senator.

McCain graduated from the elite Naval Academy in 1958, later serving in Vietnam as a fighter jet pilot.

It caps a week of memorials for McCain, who died on 25 August, aged 81, from the effects of brain cancer.

Two former presidents ‑ George W Bush and Barack Obama ‑ paid tribute to McCain's courage and sense of honour.

[Source:BBC News]

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