A casket containing Shane Warne’s body and wrapped in an Australian flag is on its way home to Australia. shanewarne
The body of the cricketing great is on its way back to his home town Melbourne.Warne’s state memorial service will be held in a twilight timeslot at the MCG on Wednesday, March 30.A charter flight containing the remains of the cricket great departed Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport on Thursday morning Thai time, en route to Melbourne, where according to flight tracking information it is due to land about 8.30pm.
Australian government officials including Australia’s ambassador to Thailand, Allan McKinnon, were at the airport on Thursday as the charter flight departed. On Thursday before dawn, a casket containing Warne’s body and wrapped in an Australian flag was loaded into a van outside the forensic wing of Bangkok’s Police General Hospital before being transported to the Thai capital’s secondary airport, about 30 minutes north of the city centre and which is also the main base of the Royal Thai Air Force.The service will include highlights of Warne’s record-breaking career on the scoreboard, while other more touching, personal tributes are expected.
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