Journey home

Officials pray near caskets containing the remains of Sgt Eric Houck, 25, from Baltimore, Sgt William Bays, 29, of Barstow, California and Sgt Dillon Baldridge, 22, of Youngsville, North Carolina, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The US department of defence said the men died of gunshot wounds sustained in Peka Valley, Nangarhar, Afghanistan.