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Bodies of some of Berkeley balcony collapse victims repatriated to Ireland

The bodies of four of the victims of a balcony collapse in California were repatriated to Ireland on Sunday(June 21) after being flown from America. Relatives of Eoghan Culligan, Lorcan Miller, Niccolai Schuster and Eimar Walsh returned to Irelan...

The bodies of four of the victims of a balcony collapse in  California  were repatriated to  Ireland on Sunday (June 21) after being flown from  America .

Relatives of Eoghan Culligan, Lorcan Miller, Niccolai Schuster and Eimar Walsh returned to  Ireland  on the same flight, local media reported.

Olivia Burke 's family will return to  Ireland  with her remains on Monday (June 22).

The five Irish students, all aged 21, were among six people who died in a balcony collapse on June 16 near the University of California  at Berkeley.

The sixth victim was Burke's 22-year-old Irish-American cousin  Ashley Donohoe .

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The Irish students had been working in the  San Francisco Bay  area on temporary visas for the summer holidays and had been celebrating a friend's birthday when the accident occurred.

Thirteen people were on the small balcony when it gave way, plunging 40 feet (12m) to the street below, with some victims landing on top of one another, officials said.

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