Global media like BBC, AP, and AFP provide media coverage of the State Funeral for the legendary Vo Nguyen Giap on Sunday with AFP saying “Military trucks carrying General Giap's flag-draped coffin were met by vast crowds with many mourners crying, chanting or praying in Vietnam's biggest state funeral in decades”.

What did they say?

AP:

Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of the Vietnamese capital on Sunday to bid a final farewell to a legendary war hero who led the poor Southeast Asian nation to victory over the French and then the Americans.

"Long live Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap," people chanted, many in tears, as his flag-draped coffin passed by on a truck-drawn artillery carriage. The procession travelled along a 40-kilometer (25-mile) route from the national funeral house in downtown Hanoi to the airport. Crowds of young and old lined the route, in places 10 deep.

"You, comrade, have made a great and excellent contribution to the revolutionary cause of our party and nation," Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong said in a eulogy read out at the funeral house. "Your personality and your great contribution were strongly imprinted in the heart of the people."

"No words can describe how much love and respect people reserve for Gen. Giap," said Nguyen Thi Vi, 71, from central province of Ha Tinh, as she was waiting in the crowd.

"I feel like I lost one of my relatives. Gen. Giap will live forever in the heart of Vietnamese people and we may not witness another great man like him," she said. "We should set up temples to honor him and where people can go and pay their respect."

BBC:

A two-day state funeral for Vietnamese national hero General Vo Nguyen Giap is in its final stages.

A grand procession is escorting the general's body from Hanoi, where it has been lying in state, to his home town in Quang Binh province for burial.

BBC South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head says the general's death has prompted an extraordinary outpouring of emotion.

Jonathan Head BBC News, Hanoi:

The lines of people waiting outside the state funeral hall just went on and on, throughout the day, and into the evening. Tens of thousands waiting quietly for the crisply-uniformed guards to usher them in to pay their respects to the draped coffin inside.

Most moving were the elderly veterans, their chests tinkling with the medals won during the long war against the Americans. Stooped, leaning on sticks, or unable to walk at all, they were helped in by blue-shirted young volunteers mobilised by the government for the occasion.

But just as striking was the number of young people. I saw one couple, wearing black bandanas carrying the words, "We Miss You General Giap".

AFP:

Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese lined the streets of Hanoi on Sunday to bid farewell to revered independence hero General Vo Nguyen Giap as his funeral cortege passed through the capital.

Military trucks carrying General Giap's flag-draped coffin were met by vast crowds -- at places 10 or 20 deep -- with many mourners crying, chanting or praying in Vietnam's biggest state funeral in decades.

"(Giap) is the general of the People and his name will be forever engraved in the history of the nation," Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong said in a televised speech on Sunday.

General Giap's death was "a great loss" for the Vietnamese people and nation, he added, speaking before the procession at the Hanoi Funeral House, where the general's body lay in state overnight.

"The general will live forever!" one man shouted as the funeral procession drove by to the airport, where his body will be flown to his native Quang Binh province some 500 kilometres away for burial later Sunday.

Hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to pay their last respects to Giap, lauded as a military genius for the guerrilla tactics that inspired resistance movements around the world, since he died last week at 103.

"He's gone, taking with him part of our glorious victory," said retired civil servant Tran Hung Tuy, 74.

"People admire and love Giap from the bottom of their heart," he told AFP after he finished a prayer as the coffin went past.