Coffins of killed Chinese workers to return home
BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The coffins of 11 Chinese workers killed in Afghanistan will be carried back home by a Chinese charter plane later Monday, sources said.

In Kunduz on June 12, 2004, road worker Jiang Riren from Jiangxi Province shows a bullet that was fired into the tent on the night of the terror attack. He would have been one of the victims if he had not switched his tent that night, where 9 of the 10 workers sleeping there got killed. (Xinhua photo)

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Workers unload empty coffins from a Chinese plane upon its arrival at the international airport in Kabul June 14, 2004. The plane is to carry the remains of 11 Chinese road workers killed in the terrorist attack in Afghanistan back to Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province. (Xinhua Photo)
An Afghan soldier examines the tent where 11 Chinese were killed in their sleep on June 10, 2004. (Reuters photo)
Afghan security stand guard in front of the Chinese embassy in Kabul June 10, 2004. (Reuters photo)

Coffins of killed Chinese workers to return home  

BEIJING, June 14(Xinhuanet)-- The coffins of 11 Chinese workers killed in Afghanistan will be carried back home by a Chinese charter plane later Monday, sources said.

Representatives from the relevant government departments and companies, relatives of the victims, and Afghan vice minister for public works Mohammad Yaqub are expected to attend a receiving ceremony in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province, where 10 of the killed workers were from.

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