DHAKA: In an emotional journey, the body of Lee Kuan Yew was conveyed via a gun carriage from the Istana to Parliament House on Wednesday morning, where Singaporeans can pay their last respects till Saturday.

Thousands lined the streets along the route from about 7.30am for the ceremony that started at 9:00am at Sri Temasek at the Istana.

As his coffin emerged from the Istana gate, cheers of ‘We love you Mr Lee’ erupted from the crowd that had gathered there. All along the streets, people clapped, craned their necks for a better look and took photographs of the procession.

At the entrance of Parliament House, the thousands that lined the road there chanted ‘Lee Kuan Yew’, ‘Lee Kuan Yew’.

Lee, 91, died at the Singapore General Hospital on March 23. He had been warded there for severe pneumonia on February 5.

The morning’s events started at 9am, when the casket, which was draped with the state flag, was carried by the coffin bearer party onto the gun carriage.

BDST: 1216HRS, MAR 25, 2015