REUTERS - The family of
Fidel Castro began a ceremony on Sunday to inter the revolutionary leader's
ashes in the eastern city of Santiago, state media reported, while
600 miles
(1,000 km) away in the capital of Havana a 21-gun salute echoed through the
city.
Castro died on
Nov. 25 aged 90, setting off nine days of official mourning scheduled to end on
Sunday.
Official Cuban
media at first reported the events would be carried live on television, but
hours before the ceremony was due to take place reported that it would be
"solemn and private".
Video of the
event would only be televised on delay, as Cuban television cut from live
coverage at the appointed hour of 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT).
At that moment
in Havana, military cannons unleashed a 21-gun salute heard across the capital.
Castro came to
power in a 1959 revolution and built a Communist state on the doorstep of the
United States.
He ruled for
49 years before stepping down a decade ago due to illness.
REUTERS
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