Drone footage as Maradona's cortege approaches cemetery

Drone shots showed the hearse carrying the body of Argentine football great Diego Maradona arriving at a Buenos Aires cemetery on Thursday evening.

Mourners carried Maradona's coffin across the Bella Vista burial site.

Earlier Thursday, tens of thousands of fans, many weeping, filed past Maradona's coffin, in ceremonies that mixed head-of-state-like honours with the chaos of a rowdy stadium.

Fans singing football anthems, some draped in the national flag, formed a line more than 20 blocks long stretching from the Plaza de Mayo where Argentines gathered to celebrate the Maradona-led triumph in the 1986 World Cup.

Maradona died on Wednesday of a heart attack in a house outside Buenos Aires where he had been recovering from a brain operation on November 3.