Canada Receives Bodies Of Three Fallen Soldiers From Afghanistan

CFB Trenton, Ontario (AHN) - The bodies of three soldiers, Pte. Chad Horn, 21, Cpl. Andrew Grenon, 23 and Cpl. Mike Seggie, 21, who were killed in an ambush in Zhari, Afghanistan, arrived home onboard a military plane Saturday evening at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton.

The bodies, which arrived together with 108 homecoming compatriots serving the NATO forces in Afghanistan, were received on the tarmac by families and friends, and Canadian officials led by Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk and former governor general Adrienne Clarkson, Colonel in Chief of the soldiers' regiment, the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

Horn, Grenon and Seggie died and four other soldiers wounded while conducting a security patrol in Zhari.

The homecoming soldiers served about seven or eight months in Afghanistan.

The fatalities bring to 96 the number of Canadian soldiers killed while on duty in Afghanistan since 2002.