Bodies of crash victims arrive home to Latvia

The bodies of a Latvian mother and daughter killed in a car crash in Co Donegal last weekend arrived back to their home town …

The bodies of a Latvian mother and daughter killed in a car crash in Co Donegal last weekend arrived back to their home town yesterday.

Aija Porcika (38) and her daughter, Ginta Veits (19) were among five eastern Europeans killed in a crash near Buncrana involving two cars early last Saturday morning.

Their bodies were flown from Dublin airport to Riga yesterday and brought by funeral hearse to the port town of Liepaja in western Latvia last night.

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