Vietnamese social media users mourn leader

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 21, 2024 12:10 am

HANOI — Social media users in Vietnam changed their profile pictures to black on Saturday in a show of mourning for the Southeast Asian country's late leader Nguyen Phu Trong, whose death was announced the day before.

Users on Facebook, X and Threads also posted photos and eulogies of the former Communist Party general secretary after Vietnam's state media announced on Friday that the 80-year-old had died at a military hospital in the capital Hanoi 'due to old age and serious illness.'

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