The families of three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan remembered their "heroes" at their funerals as another two UK fatalities were announced.
Relatives, friends and comrades paid their respects to Fusilier Simon Annis, 22, Fusilier Louis Carter, 18, and Craftsman Anthony Lombardi, 21, who all died in Helmand Province last month.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence confirmed that a soldier from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was killed in an explosion in Babaji district in Helmand on Wednesday.
A second soldier, from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, died from a gunshot wound he sustained on a foot patrol in Babaji on Thursday morning.
Both men were operating with the Light Dragoons Battle Group. Their families have been informed.
The latest deaths took the number of British troops killed in Afghanistan since the start of operations in 2001 to 212, including 41 in July and August this year alone.
Back in Britain moving funeral services were held for three servicemen killed during earlier fighting.
Fusilier Annis, from Salford, Greater Manchester, and Fusilier Carter, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, both of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, died in an explosion in Sangin in Helmand on August 16.
The pair had gone to the aid of their section commander Lance Corporal James Fullarton, 24, who was also killed in the blast.
Craftsman Lombardi, from Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire, of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, died in Babaji in Helmand on August 4.
