World leaders bow, pray at Nelson Mandela’s casket

World leaders bow, pray at Nelson Mandela’s casket

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — World leaders and thousands of South Africans today filed past the flag-draped casket containing the body of Nelson Mandela, having a final look at the anti-apartheid icon in the amphitheater where he was sworn in 19 years earlier as the country’s first black president. Some made the sign of the cross, others simply gazed at Mandela’s face through a glass bubble atop the coffin at the Union Buildings, the government offices in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria.