Dead soldiers taken home
29/03/2003 15:44  - (SA)  

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London - The bodies of the first British servicemen to die in the Iraq war were flown home on Saturday.

Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon and Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth's second son, along with senior military officials attended a ceremony to mark the return of the ten dead soldiers at a Royal Air Force base in Brize Norton, west England.

A C-17 military cargo aircraft touched down at the base just after 14:00.

It was carrying the bodies of eight British servicemen who died when the US Sea Knight helicopter they were aboard crashed south of the Kuwaiti border on March 21.

The other two bodies were those of the crew of the British GR4 Tornado warplane which was hit near the Kuwaiti border by a US Patriot missile last Sunday.

Twenty-three British soldiers have been killed in total since the start of the US-led war on March 20 - 14 in helicopter accidents, four in combat, and five as a result of "friendly fire".

- AFX

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