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Crowds gather for funeral of Canadian soldier

2014-10-28 25 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Hundreds of mourners lined the streets of industrial Hamilton, Ontario, on Tuesday (October 28) to watch the military funeral procession of Corporal Nathan Cirillo, the soldier shot dead in last week's attack on the nation's seat of government.<br/> <br />Corporal Cirillo, 24, was one of two soldiers killed in a pair of attacks last week that police said were carried out independently by radical recent converts to Islam. The assaults took place as Canada's military was stepping up its involvement in air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq.<br/> <br />Dressed in ceremonial kilts, white boots and garters, members of Cirillo's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders unit marched slowly alongside his casket, which was draped with a Canadian flag, his belt, bayonet and badge. Cirillo's five-year-old son followed the procession on foot, waving a Canadian flag.<br/> <br />Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and hundreds of mourners packed into the 138-year-ol

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