Public funeral for Venezuela's Chavez to be held on Friday

The corpse of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will lie in state through Friday when a public funeral will be held with invited guests from across Latin America, foreign minister Elias Jaua said late on Tuesday.

March 06, 2013 / 08:29 IST

The corpse of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will lie in state through Friday when a public funeral will be held with invited guests from across Latin America, foreign minister Elias Jaua said late on Tuesday.

He declared seven days of mourning for the leader who died of cancer and said Chavez's body would be transferred from hospital to a military academy on Wednesday.

first published: Mar 6, 2013 06:32 am

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