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		</div><p>A hearse convoy, carrying German high school students killed in the Germanwings plane crash, has left Duesseldorf airport and is heading to their hometown of Haltern.</p>
<p>Lufthansa airline had flown in the remains of the first 44 of the 150 people killed when a Germanwings plane smashed into the French Alps on March 24.</p>
<p>Authorities say the co-pilot purposely slammed the plane into a mountain.</p>
<p>Parents and relatives viewed the coffins inside an airport hangar before the convoy of black or white hearses, accompanied by a police motorcade, set off slowly for Haltern.</p>
<p>The whole convoy was to pass by the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium, the high school the teens attended.</p>
<p>&#8220;This entire event is a tragedy, especially for the parents, but we, too, lost our students and colleagues,&#8221; said principal Ulrich Wessel.</p>
<p>Two of the teachers who had accompanied the students on a school exchange trip to Spain were also killed in the crash.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s especially difficult for the students of grade 10,&#8221; Mr Wessel said. &#8220;There used to be 150 students, now they are only 134 &#8230; Many lost their best friends.&#8221;</p>
<p>The group was flying back from Barcelona to Duesseldorf when co-pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed the plane against a mountain in France.</p>
<p>While they waited for arrival of the convoy, students in Haltern laid white roses for their dead friends on the pavement next to their school.</p>
<p>They also lit white candles on the school yard, where 18 trees were recently planted as a memorial to the deceased.</p>
<p>Mr Wessel said psychologists had talked to the students earlier this week and that all students would be allowed to attend their schoolmates&#8217; funerals.</p>
<p>The first burials will be held Friday, the last ones at the end of the month. One teen will not be buried in Haltern.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for Germanwings said the remains of the other victims to their home countries had also begun and would likely be finished by the end of June.</p>
<p>Lufthansa spokesman Andreas Bartels said, in addition to individual returns, a special flight next Monday would return remains of the Spanish victims to Barcelona from Marseille.</p>
<p>In addition to the 72 German victims, 47 Spaniards, another four people who were dual citizens with a Spanish passport, and citizens of over a dozen other countries were killed in the crash.</p>
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