Bodies of six British soldiers flown back to UK

Tue Nov 10 2009 09:18:08

Six British soldiers killed in Afghanistan are being repatriated to the UK.

Five of the victims were shot dead by a rogue Afghan police officer at a secure checkpoint in Helmand Province on November 3.

They were Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 40, Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman Jimmy Major, 18, from the Grenadier Guards, died alongside Corporal Steven Boote, 22, and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military Police.

On November 5, Serjeant Phillip Scott, 30, of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was killed by an improvised explosive device near Sangin.

The soldiers' bodies will be flown into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.

After a private repatriation ceremony for their families, hearses carrying their Union Jack-draped coffins will pass along the high street of nearby Wootton Bassett.

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