Tens of thousands of people gathered on the outskirts of Beirut on Sunday to pay their respects to Hezbollah's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a stunning blow to the Iran-backed group.

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 mourners dressed in black, some waving Hezbollah flags or carrying portraits of the group’s slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, flocked to his funeral on Sunday in a stadium on the outskirts of Beirut.