Killed Brit soldiers repatriated
Three British soldiers killed when the armoured vehicle they were travelling in was hit by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan last month have been repatriated.
Soldiers repatriated to the UK from Afghanistan
Corporal William Savage, Fusilier Samuel Flint and Private Robert Hetherington have been repatriated back to the UK from Afghanistan.
The soliders were travelling in a Mastiff armoured vehicle when it hit a roadside bomb on a routine patrol in Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand Province.
The family of Robert Hetherington have requested that the media do not show images of the soldier's coffin.
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