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Last Updated: Tuesday, 18 November, 2003, 12:37 GMT
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In pictures: Italy buries its dead
Italian Carabinieri officers place one of the 19 caskets, covered in the Italian flag, on an army truck to be taken to St Paul Basilica
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Much of Italy ground to a halt to watch the state funeral of 19 Italian policemen and soldiers killed in Iraq.
Presidential guards escort army trucks, each carrying two caskets covered in the Italian flag, towards St Paul Basilica
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Their caskets were taken to St Paul's Basilica - thousands of people attended the ceremony.
Relatives of the 19 Italians slain in Iraq mourn as the caskets are carried inside St Paul Basilica
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The entire country is grieving - Tuesday has been declared a national day of mourning.
Relatives mourning at the side of a coffin of one of the 19 Italian soldiers and policemen killed in Iraq
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The bodies have been laying in state in the centre of Rome at the Victor Emmanuel monument, dedicated to the Unknown Soldier.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi passing next to the slain Italian soldiers and police men which have been laying in state
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Hundreds of Italians filed past the coffins - including Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
A woman looks out of a window where an Italian flag hangs
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Italian flags hang from the windows of many private houses and at half mast on public buildings.


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