Afghanistan

Funeral of Gurkha soldier takes place

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More than a thousand people have gathered in Aldershot for the funeral of a Gurkha soldier killed in Afghanistan.

Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung, from 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, was on his third tour of Afghanistan when he was shot in January.

Gaj had joined the Gurkhas in 2004 and this was his third tour of Afghanistan.

He had been on foot patrol in the Khar Nikah region of the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province working with the Afghan police.

More than a thousand people gathered for his service, which took place at Princes Hall in Aldershot.