GERMANY: RELATIVES ATTEND A CEREMONY AS THE BODIES OF FOUR GERMAN ISAF SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN ARRIVE AT COLOGNE MILITARY AIRPORT

Record ID: 648151

  • Title: GERMANY: RELATIVES ATTEND A CEREMONY AS THE BODIES OF FOUR GERMAN ISAF SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN ARRIVE AT COLOGNE MILITARY AIRPORT
  • Date: 10th June 2003
  • Summary: (W7) COLOGNE, GERMANY (JUNE 10, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF GERMAN AIR FORCE PLANE TAXIING 0.09 2. LV: EIGHT SOLDIERS CARRYING ONE OF THE FOUR COFFINS PAST HEARSES PARKED ON TARMAC 0.22 3. GV/WS: OF SOLDIERS CARRYING TWO OF THE COFFINS ACROSS THE AIRPORT TARMAC 0.28 4. VARIOUS: COFFIN BEING CARRIED INSIDE THE HANGAR (5 SHOTS) 0.47 5. WIDE OF HONOUR GUARD 0.55 6. GV: OF INTERIOR OF HANGAR WITH GATHERED CROWD 0.58 7. LV/PAN: RELATIVES HUGGING AND CRYING AND A SECOND GROUP OF RELATIVES STANDING IN FRONT OF ANOTHER COFFIN 1.11 8. VARIOUS: CRYING RELATIVES WALKING AWAY FROM COFFIN, TAKING SEATS (2 SHOTS) 1.29 9. WS: OF GRIEVING RELATIVES 1.32 10. LV/TRACK: SOLDIERS INJURED IN SAME KABUL ATTACK CRYING, WALKING AWAY FROM COFFIN, ONE WEARING BANDAGE AROUND HEAD 1.55 11. LV: GROUP OF SOLDIERS, SOME IN UNIFORM, SOME IN COMBATS, STAND LISTENING TO THE SERVICE 2.02 12. LV: OF SOLDIERS STANDING ROUND ONE COFFIN WITH DEAD SOLDIER'S PICTURE AT SIDE 2.06 13. GV/WS: OF SEATED RELATIVES, FOUR COFFINS AND SOLDIERS 2.11 14. LV: OF ONE COFFIN BEING CARRIED FROM HANGAR 2.20 15. WS/GV: OF COFFINS BEING TAKEN FROM HANGAR PAST RELATIVES AND SOLDIERS 2.27 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 25th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: COLOGNE, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVADSP14D476L7HPZQOCRNLP4QZ0
  • Story Text: The bodies of four German ISAF soldiers killed in a
    suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul last week
    have arrived in Germany.



    A German air force plane carrying the dead bodies
    arrived at Cologne military airport on Tuesday (June 10),
    three days after four German soldiers were killed and
    twenty-nine injured in a suicide bomb attack on a bus full of
    German peacekeepers.

    German defence minister Peter Struck, relatives and
    friends attended a somber ceremony inside a hangar.

    Also present were some of the lightly wounded soldiers who
    lost four of their comrades.

    Dressed in desert camouflage and one wearing a bandage
    around his head, the soldiers paid their last respects at the
    coffins before returniung to their seats, crying.

    At an army barracks in Frankenberg/Eder where some of the
    victims are believed to be based, flags flew at half mast.

    The German army would not confirm or deny where the Kabul
    victims are based.

    According to International Security Assistance Force
    (ISAF) intelligence, an Afghan taxi was overtaking the bus
    full of German troops on the Kabul-Jalalabad road in the east
    of the city when the bomb exploded, reducing the car to piles
    of twisted metal and badly damaging the bus.

    The attack was the worst on ISAF since its deployment in
    Kabul shortly after the fall of the Taliban regime in late
    2001.




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