Tens of thousands of people gathered at a stadium in Lebanon's capital Beirut to mourn Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a public funeral nearly five months after he was killed by an Israeli air strike.

Hezbollah carried out a public funeral on Sunday for its slain leader, Hassan Nasrallah, attended by tens of thousands of Lebanese civilians, nearly five months after he was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike.

Large crowds have gathered for the funeral of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut in September. Mourners dressed in black flocked to a stadium on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital on Sunday.