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Pop Smoke Hometown Love ... Fans Line Streets for Funeral Procession (Video and Photos+)

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Pop Smoke 's most ardent fans are out in droves in Brooklyn ... giving the late rapper one final, emotional sendoff. The funeral procession is going down Thursday afternoon in the Canarsie neighborhood of the borough. Two horses are pulling the carriage and hearse, decorated with white curtains ... and Pop Smoke's casket can be seen through the glass. TMZ.com The carriage made its way past a mural honoring Pop Smoke, and his good friend and mentor 50 Cent's Lamborghini was part of the procession as well ... though it doesn't look like Fiddy was behind the wheel. There were barricades set up in the mostly residential neighborhood to keep fans on sidewalks. NYPD is also on hand to keep things under control. We go cast you broke the story ... 20-year-old Pop Smoke was gunned down last month in the Hollywood Hills in

Coronavirus patients lie face down and hooked up to hospital machines in harrowing photos

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  Coronavirus patients lie face down, hooked up to machines and cared for by medics in full protective suits in Italy – where a doctor likens the deadly outbreak to war. Another 97 people were killed by the virus there yesterday, bringing the death toll to 463 as the number infected jumped to 9,172. The whole country will today be locked down as the quarantine of 16 million people in the north is extended to the whole of Italy. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said movement will be restricted throughout the country and that people should not travel except for work and emergencies. All public gatherings there were banned and sport at all levels suspended until at least April, including Serie A matches. There were warnings it could be a taste of things to come in Britain. Francois Balloux of the University College London Genetics Institute said: “The trajectory in the UK is so far roughly comparable to the one in northern Italy, but with the epidemic [there] two to three week