Body of digger returning home on Sunday

The body of an Australian soldier killed by a bomb blast in Afghanistan seven days
ago will be brought home on Sunday, defence says.
Private Benjamin Ranaudo, 22, was killed in an insurgent bomb blast last Saturday,
the 11th Australian soldier to die in Afghanistan since 2002.
A repatriation ceremony will be held at Avalon Airport in Melbourne on Sunday morning.
It will be attended by Defence Minister John Faulkner and acting defence force chief
Lieutenant General David Hurley, among others.
Private Ranaudo began his long journey home on Tuesday after a moving ceremony at
the Australian base at Tarin Kowt in Oruzgan province.
Soldiers from the 2nd Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRTF) and coalition
forces, including the Afghan National Army, lined the road to the runway at Tarin
Kowt base where an aircraft was waiting to carry him home.
Private Ranaudo's family have described him as a proud soldier who believed in what
he did.
"He was a son, a brother, a comrade, a life partner," the family said in a statement
earlier this week.