RELATIVES of victims of the Austrian coach crash yesterday lit candles in front of their loved ones' coffins in a ceremony for the five Britons who died earlier this week.
The ceremony was held as it emerged that at least two of those injured in the tragedy are from Scotland.
Kenneth and Margaret Ring, from Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, were among 42 British tourists and seven others who were on the bus when it plunged off a mountain road and fell 100ft down an embankment on Tuesday.
Yesterday, a group of about 25 family members joined 200 local people, officials and rescue workers for the service in the small chapel at the cemetery in Hallein, near the scene of the accident.
Christian Stockl, the mayor of Hallein, told those gathered: ''The people of Hallein share the grief and sorrow of the relatives.''
The Britons who died were David Hamilton, 33, from Dorset, Marian Ashby, 80, and Robert Ashby, 60, from Hertfordshire, Clare Patel, 39, from Buckinghamshire, and Rebecca Earland, 16, from Kent.
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