FRANCE-CRASH/GERMANWINGS BODIES UPDATE Remains of Germanwings crash victims driven past school

Record ID: 150775

  • Title: FRANCE-CRASH/GERMANWINGS BODIES UPDATE Remains of Germanwings crash victims driven past school
  • Date: 10th June 2015
  • Summary: HALTERN AM SEE, GERMANY (JUNE 10, 2015) (REUTERS) ENTRANCE TO JOSEPH KOENIG HIGH SCHOOL WHERE 16 OF THE STUDENTS KILLED IN THE GERMANWINGS CRASH WENT TO SCHOOL POLICE VAN ESCORTING ROW OF WHITE HEARSES SLOWLY DRIVING PAST SCHOOL, RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND OTHER MOURNERS LINING THE STREET WOMAN WITH FLOWERS WATCHING MORE WHITE, THEN BLACK HEARSES DRIVING PAST SCHOOL YELLOW ROS
  • Embargoed: 25th June 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADLOGFOTDOT4ZVVQV37EVIBQDD
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Hearses carrying the remains of the German victims killed in the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps last March were driven past the school on Wednesday (June 10) where some of the dead were students.
    Hundreds of people lined the street outside the Joseph Koenig high school in the small town of Haltern am See near Duesseldorf where sixteen 10th grade students who died on March 24 had attended classes.
    The teenagers were on their way home after a week-long Spanish exchange programme at the Institut Giola in Llinars del Vallès near Barcelona.
    It was a reciprocal visit after 12 Spanish students had spent a week at their school in December.
    The procession took place almost three months after flight 9525 was brought down by its co-pilot, killing everyone on board.
    44 coffins arrived at Duesseldorf airport on Tuesday night (June 9) from Marseille before they were transported in hearses from Duesseldorf on Wednesday afternoon.
    The town of Haltern am See (Haltern on the lake) lies about 30 km (20 miles) to the north of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen - homes of two major German soccer clubs and former mining towns. It is 50 km (30 miles) north of Duesseldorf.
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