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| Soldiers' bodies are flown home | |
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| The bodies of six UK servicemen - five of whom were shot by a "rogue" Afghan policeman - have been flown home. | |
| Guardsman Jimmy Major, Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Sgt Matthew Telford, Cpl Steven Boote and Cpl Nicholas Webster-Smith died in last Tuesday's incident. | Guardsman Jimmy Major, Warrant Officer Darren Chant, Sgt Matthew Telford, Cpl Steven Boote and Cpl Nicholas Webster-Smith died in last Tuesday's incident. |
| The coffins arrived at RAF Lyneham, Wilts, along with that of Sgt Phillip Scott, who died in a blast on Thursday. | |
| After a private service for families, a cortege will then pass through nearby Wootton Bassett. | After a private service for families, a cortege will then pass through nearby Wootton Bassett. |
| Hundreds of people are once again expected to line the streets to pay silent respects, as has become custom when fallen services personnel are returned. | Hundreds of people are once again expected to line the streets to pay silent respects, as has become custom when fallen services personnel are returned. |
| Six other British personnel and two Afghan police officers were injured when the five men were shot dead at a national police checkpoint in the Nad Ali district of Helmand Province. | Six other British personnel and two Afghan police officers were injured when the five men were shot dead at a national police checkpoint in the Nad Ali district of Helmand Province. |
| The gunman fled the compound afterwards and remains at large. | The gunman fled the compound afterwards and remains at large. |
| Gordon Brown: "Each life lost is an irreplaceable loss from a family" | |
| WO Chant, 40, from east London; Sgt Telford, 37, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire; and Guardsman Major, 18, from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, were from the Grenadier Guards. | WO Chant, 40, from east London; Sgt Telford, 37, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire; and Guardsman Major, 18, from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, were from the Grenadier Guards. |
| Territorial Army volunteer Cpl Boote, 22, from Birkenhead, Merseyside, and Cpl Webster-Smith, 24, of Brackley, Northamptonshire, were from the Royal Military Police. | Territorial Army volunteer Cpl Boote, 22, from Birkenhead, Merseyside, and Cpl Webster-Smith, 24, of Brackley, Northamptonshire, were from the Royal Military Police. |
| Sjt Scott, 30, who was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, and lived in Edinburgh, died during an explosives clearance operation in Sangin, Helmand. | Sjt Scott, 30, who was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, and lived in Edinburgh, died during an explosives clearance operation in Sangin, Helmand. |