Relatives gather during the funeral held at a local indoor sports arena on July 30, 2013 in Pozzuoli, Italy. Large group attends the funeral of 38 people killed in a bus crash in southern ItalyPrime Minister Enrico Letta is among those at the service in PozzuoliThe bus plunged off a bridge as it returned from a weekend visit to a Catholic shrineRome (CNN) -- Throngs of mourners gathered in southern Italy on Tuesday for the funeral of 38 people killed when their bus plunged off a bridge as it returned from a visit to a Catholic shrine.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta was among those who attended the service in the village of Pozzuoli, near Naples.He said on Twitter that Tuesday would be a national day of mourning for the victims.The bus was traveling east of Naples in Avellino province when it crashed late Sunday. The passengers had participated in a weekend pilgrimage to the Padre Pio shrine in Pietrelcina.var currExpandable="expand15";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.source='us/2013/07/29/tsr-dnt-marsh-bus-safety.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='http://situationroom.blogs.cnn.com/';mObj.lgImage="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130729064413-03-italy-bus-0729-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand15Store=mObj;var currExpandable="expand25";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.source='world/2013/07/29/nadeau-italy-bus-crash.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='';mObj.lgImage="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130729012211-nadeau-italy-bus-crash-00015205-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand25Store=mObj;Andrea Regione, a photographer for the Corriere dell'Irpinia newspaper, told CNN that the bus went off a bridge and fell roughly 30 meters (almost 100 feet) into a heavily wooded area below.Photos from the scene showed a broken guardrail and the bus lying on its side.Avellino police official Pasquale Picone said the bus struck 11 cars on the road before falling off the bridge, leading police to suspect the bus had brake problems. But the exact cause of the accident remains unknown.The funeral in Pozzuoli comes only a day after a somber memorial Mass in Spain for 79 victims of last week's train crash outside Santiago de Compostela.Journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau contributed to this report./* push in config for this share instance */cnn_shareconfig.push({"id" : "cnn_sharebar2","url" : "http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/italy-bus-crash-funeral/index.html","title" : "Mourners pay tribute to Italy bus crash victims"});
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