Town’s moving tribute to victims of Taliban bomb
HUNDREDS of people lined the streets yesterday to honour six soldiers killed by a Taliban bomb.
The flag-waving crowd also paid tribute to more than 400 men from 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment on their last parade before deploying to Afghanistan.
Five of their comrades were among six men lost when a Taliban bomb devastated their Warrior armoured vehicle on March 6.
As the battalion marched through Warminster, Wiltshire, six red roses were strewn across their path. The regiment’s Colonel-in-Chief, the Duke of York, took the salute before attending a service where the Last Post was played.
The US solider who shot dead 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday had seen a friend’s legs blown off the day before, his lawyer said. Last night he was en route from a US base in Kuwait to a detention facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.