Police officers along the route saluted each coffin and paramedics handed out bottles of water to mourners who held onto each other for the slow half mile walk to the cemetery on the edge of the village.
Investigations into the collapse of the doomed school continued yesterday. Both the architect and builder in charge of the last alterations to the school denied any responsibility.
Prosecutors Andrea Tassone and Maria Perna are looking into the possibility of bringing charges of multiple manslaughter and causing a disaster.
Speaking after visiting the pile of rubble that is now the Francesco Iovine school, they said it was too early to say who would be charged with any offence.
Signor Tassone said:"The collapse of the school building is an anomoly. We have to ascertain if there is any eventual responsibility but at this precise moment we know nothing.
"At this precise moment in time there is not one element of responsibility that we can place on anyone."
Blame has already been pointed at the architect Giuseppe La Serra who added a roof extension two years ago amid claims that the wrong type of cement and steel support girders were wrongly used.
He will be spoken to by the prosecutors along with builder Giovanni Marino who was in charge of the work at the school which was only completed earlier this year.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi did not attend the 70 minute funeral service.
The government was represented by the education minister Letizia Moratti and leader of the house Pierferdinado Casini. |
