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Slain soldier expected to be returned home to Hamilton today, police say

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 24 Oct, 2014 10:51 AM

TORONTO - The body of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, the honour guard gunned down at the National War Memorial in Ottawa this week, will be returned to his hometown of Hamilton via the Highway of Heroes today.

"We're still working on details on that motorcade, it will be happening later on today," said OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt. "It will be on the 401 on some point."

The Highway of Heroes is the stretch of Ontario's Highway 401 between Canadian Forces Base Trenton and Toronto that vehicles bearing the coffins of those killed in Afghanistan would travel after being returned to Canada.

Spontaneous outpourings of public support often broke out on the highway's overpasses as the motorcades went past.

Cirillo, a reservist from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, is expected to be given a full regimental funeral.

The 24-year-old was shot dead as he and a colleague stood guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Wednesday.

The gunman was killed after he burst into the Centre Block on Parliament Hill.

Books of condolence to Cirillo have been set up in Hamilton and Ottawa.

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