Victims' relatives visit German crash site

Relatives of 45 Russian schoolchildren killed when their holiday jet collided with a cargo plane over southern Germany were today visiting the crash site on the Swiss border.

A special flight was due to arrive in Ueberlingen at around 9am (8am Irish time) from Ufa, the industrial city in Russia’s eastern Bashkortostan region where the children were some of the highest-achieving students who went to elite schools.