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Buenos Aires, Nov 26 (EFE).- Argentine soccer icon Diego Armando Maradona was interred Thursday alongside his parents at a cemetery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.Only around 30 people were permitted inside the gates of Jardin Bella Vista, where the elder Diego Maradona was buried just five years ago, for the hour-long ceremony at the grave site.Thousands of people lined the 40km (25mi) route to the cemetery from the Casa Rosada, the seat of Argentina's government, where Maradona's coffin lay in state for nearly 12 hours on the first of three official days of mourning. (Camera: RODRIGO GARCIA).SHOT LIST: AUTHORITIES STAND GUARD OUTSIDE THE CEMETERY IN BELLA VISTA, BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA.

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