Rome, 2 Nov. (LaPresse) – The plane carrying the four bodies of the soldiers who died in the helicopter crash in Bosnia on 29 October has landed at the Italian Air Force’s 31st Wing in Ciampino: Sergeants Simone Ruggia and Claudio Marchesi, and members of the Military Red Cross Corps, Lieutenant Franco Adriano Zecchillo and Sergeant Laura Procacci. The coffins were received by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella; the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni; the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani; the Minister of Defence, Guido Crosetto; and other civil and military authorities, alongside the families of the deceased. The bodies will subsequently be transferred to the Celio Military Hospital, where a lying-in-state area will be set up pending the funerals of the four victims.
Bosnia: Plane carrying the bodies of Italian soldiers who died in the crash lands at Ciampino
Rome, 2 Nov. (LaPresse) – The plane carrying the four bodies of the soldiers who died in the helicopter crash in Bosnia on 29 October has landed at the Italian Air Force’s 31st Wing in Ciampino: Sergeants Simone Ruggia and Claudio Marchesi, and members of the Military Red Cross Corps, Lieutenant Franco Adriano Zecchillo and Sergeant Laura Procacci. The coffins were received by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella; the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni; the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani; the Minister of Defence, Guido Crosetto; and other civil and military authorities, alongside the families of the deceased. The bodies will subsequently be transferred to the Celio Military Hospital, where a lying-in-state area will be set up pending the funerals of the four victims.