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Younger Lee leads tributes as Singapore founding father’s era ends

Singaporeans responded with quiet grief on Monday to the death of the country’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, as the government declared six days of national mourning.

Lee Hsien Loong, current prime minister and the late Lee’s eldest son, said in a nationally televised address: “We won’t see another man like him”.

Addressing the nation in each of Singapore’s national languages of Malay, Mandarin and English, Lee Hsien Loong said: “He inspired us, gave us courage, kept us together and brought us here. He fought for our independence, built a nation where there was none, and made us proud to be Singaporeans.”

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