Joint funeral for gay student couple killed by CO fumes (2)

(ANSA) - Vicenza, January 4 - Alex Ferrari and Luca Bortolaso, the young gay student couple from Vicenza killed by carbon-monoxide fumes at Ferrara di Monte Baldo near Verona on Tuesday, are to have a joint funeral, it was decided on Thursday.
    The rite will take place in the church of San Giovanni Battista in Arzignano near Vicenza on Friday at 2. 30 pm local time. The funeral will be celebrated by the men's respective parish priests. Ferrari and Bortolaso, 21, died after inhaling fumes from a defective wood-burning brazier.
    Two young women who were with them were not affected because they were sleeping in a different room, heated by an electric fire.
    The incident took place in a holiday home.