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.
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