Bodies of 2 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan head home

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More than 1,000 Canadian, U.S., Dutch and British soldiers turned out in the bright Afghanistan sunshine for a ramp ceremony Monday at Kandahar Airfield to pay their respects to two fallen Canadian comrades.

The soldiers stood quietly as the flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of Maj. Yannick Pepin, 36, and Cpl. Jean-François Drouin, 31, were loaded aboard a C-130 for the long flight home.

Pepin and Drouin were killed Sunday when a roadside bomb hit their armoured vehicle in the Dand district southwest of Kandahar city around noon local time.

Both were members of the 5 Combat Engineer Regiment and were stationed in Valcartier, Que.

Five others were injured in Sunday's attack, but their conditions are not serious. One has been released from hospital.

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