Military to hold ramp ceremony for fallen troops (No, not US) [View All]

[WhiteTara]

This is how the Canadians treat their war dead
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Early Monday morning at the Kandahar airfield, the comrades of four dead Canadian soldiers will hold a ramp ceremony to send them home.

"It will be an opportunity for those on base to come out and have a final moment of thought for these four fallen soldiers, say their final goodbyes before the bodies are flown to Trenton," CTV's Sarah Galashan told Newsnet on Sunday from Kandahar.

The four are scheduled to return to the eastern Ontario air base of CFB Trenton on Tuesday.

The investigation into Saturday's deadly incident is ongoing, she said.

The soldiers were killed in the Gumbad region of Afghanistan, about 75 kilometres north of Kandahar. They were part of a mixed convoy of light armoured vehicles and G-wagons returning to Kandahar from Gumbad, when their vehicle was struck by an powerful bomb, possibly buried in the road.