1.   Nine oak coffins were loaded onto black hearses and the procession moved solemnly past the Bronze Horseman and Winter Palace and on toward the SS Peter and Paul Fortress.

2.   Three hours later, nine coffins were loaded aboard a city-council truck and taken to Port Harcourt cemetery for a hasty burial.

3.   After brief prayers, the coffins were loaded onto the aircraft.

4.   Airport workers loaded the coffins into a waiting line of hearses, which were to transport the remains to their home villages in this mountainous region for burial.

5.   Eleven of them began their last journey home on Monday when their flag-draped coffins were loaded onto a military transport plane.

6.   Fifteen coffins were loaded into vehicles to be taken to hometowns across the country.

7.   The coffins were loaded onto a Germany military plane which was flying to Cologne, Germany via Termez, Uzbekistan.

8.   The flag-draped wooden coffins were then loaded onto a U.S. military plane bound for the United States via a U.S. Air Force base in Germany.