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Fallen soldiers return to UK

People lined the streets of Wootton Bassett as the bodies of three British soldiers killed in Helmand, Afghanistan, passed through the town after they flew into to RAF Lyneham.

Cpl John Moore, 22, from Lanarkshire and Pte Sean McDonald, 26, who went to school in Edinburgh, died in an explosion near Sangin on Sunday.

Warrant Officer Class 2 David Markland, from Euxton, Lancs, died in a blast in the Nad e Ali district on Monday.

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