World mourns passing of Mandela

Updated: 2013-12-06 13:47

(Agencies)


World mourns passing of Mandela

Dijon Anderson of Bowie, Maryland photographs his son Keaton, 10, in front of a statue of Nelson Mandela at the South African embassy in Washington Dec 5, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leaders as a moral giant. [Photo/Agencies]

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