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| Bodies of five Paras return to UK | Bodies of five Paras return to UK |
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| The bodies of five British soldiers from one regiment who were killed in Afghanistan have been flown to the UK. | The bodies of five British soldiers from one regiment who were killed in Afghanistan have been flown to the UK. |
| They arrived at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire for a repatriation ceremony. | They arrived at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire for a repatriation ceremony. |
| The men, all from 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, which is based in Colchester, Essex, died in two separate incidents in Helmand within a week. | |
| Ptes Nathan Cuthbertson, David Murray and Daniel Gamble died in a suicide bombing. L/Cpl James Bateman and Pte Jeff Doherty died under Taleban fire. | Ptes Nathan Cuthbertson, David Murray and Daniel Gamble died in a suicide bombing. L/Cpl James Bateman and Pte Jeff Doherty died under Taleban fire. |
| Their deaths took the number of British service personnel killed in Afghanistan since November 2001 to 102. | |
| L/Cpl Bateman and Pte Doherty were patrolling on foot near their base in Helmand Province when they came under fire on Thursday. | |
| Ptes Cuthbertson, Murray and Gamble were also on foot patrol, on Sunday 8 June, when they were targeted by a single suicide bomber. | |
| On Friday the garrison town of Colchester paid tribute to the five dead. | |
| Paras from the 2nd Battalion marched through the town's High Street to applause from watching shoppers. | |
| And crowds gathered outside the town hall and held a two-minute silence, while a Union flag flew at half-mast. | |
| Britain is due to announce extra troops for Afghanistan, bringing numbers to their highest level yet, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday. | |
| The increase would bring overall UK numbers in Afghanistan to more than 8,000 - mostly based in Helmand. |