The late leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group who was killed in an Israeli airstrike days after he took the post was laid to rest in his southern hometown.

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Beirut to attend the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the capital.

Tens of thousands of people packed into a stadium in Beirut early Sunday to attend the funeral of Hezbollah's former leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital.

Beirut's main airport will suspend flights for four hours on Sunday because of the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the former head of the Lebanese Islamist militia Hezbollah. "The airport will be closed and take-off and landing traffic to and from the airport will be halted,