BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The remains of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk has been interred in a stupa in the Royal Palace. The event is taking place on the last day of a three-day ceremony.
As Buddhist monks chanted prayers, Sihanouk’s widow Queen Mother Norodom Monineath and his son, current King Norodom Sihamoni marched Sihanouk’s ashes around the stupa three times before interring them in it. A 101-gun salute was fired to greet the late king.
Officials, such as Prime Minister Hun Sen, and diplomats including China’s ambassador to Cambodia also participated in the ceremony. Sihanouk died at the age of 90 in Beijing in 2012, and his body was cremated in Phnom Penh in February last year. Soon after some of his remains were scattered at the confluence of the four rivers in front of the Royal Palace, while the rest was interred in the stupa alongside the remains of his daughter, Princess Kantha Bopha, who died in 1952 at the age of 4.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
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