Bodies of bus crash victims to be repatriated fast - prefect

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 6 - The bodies of the 20 foreign victims of Tuesday's bus crash in Mestre will be returned to their loved ones very quickly, Venice Prefect Michele Di Bari said on Friday.
    "I believe that the time frame for repatriation will be very short," he told reporters.
    "The documents are being prepared, by tomorrow evening all the bodies will have been reassembled and will be in the Mestre hospital morgue, and at that point is is right they be transferred," said Di Bari.
    "I suggested waiting until tomorrow (Saturday, ed.) because tomorrow some family members will arrive in Mestre and should have the chance to see their loved ones for the last time," he added.
    On Tuesday 21 people - nine Ukrainians, four Romanians, three Germans, two Portuguese, one Croatian, one South African and the Italian bus driver - died when a tourist bus travelling from the centre of Venice to a camping site plunged from an overpass above a railway line between the Venice districts of Mestre and Marghera and burst into flames for reasons that are unclear.
    One hypothesis is that the driver, allegedly an experienced professional, had a bad turn, but doubts are also being raised about the guard rail on the stretch of road where the accident occurred. (ANSA).