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Funeral for Ecuador crash woman | Funeral for Ecuador crash woman |
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The funeral of a young gap-year student killed in a bus crash in Ecuador has taken place. | |
Lizzie Pincock, 19, died with four other British women in the crash earlier in April. Fourteen other people were injured. | Lizzie Pincock, 19, died with four other British women in the crash earlier in April. Fourteen other people were injured. |
The service was held in the chapel at Taunton School, where Lizzie was a prefect. Her ashes were scattered in the school grounds. | |
Hundreds of mourners attended, dressed in bright colours. | |
Lizzie's parents, Jill and Mike, had encouraged mourners to wear "bright and beautiful" clothes in their daughter's memory. | |
West Somerset Coroner Michael Rose said the teenager had died of multiple injuries. | |
Gap-year students Emily Sadler, 19, from Hertfordshire; Rebecca Logie, 19, from Chorley; and Indira Swann, 18, of Maidenhead, were also killed, along with trip leader Sarah Howard, 26, from Cheshire. |