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A 5-year-old boy who died following a long battle against brain cancer was given a special superheroes funeral.

The funeral of Brayden Denton took place recently and was attended by six extra special guests.

The pallbearers were all dressed as Thor, Spider-Man, Superman, the Hulk, Iron Man and Batman.

Brayden's mother Staci told the New York Daily News: “The whole time I saw them carrying Brayden he was probably up there going, 'This is so cool’. That was his world. That's what he would have wanted.”

The brave youngster, from Kentland, Indiana, died earlier this month and his funeral was held last week.

He had undergone 30 rounds of radiation treatment for an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer.