Berkeley tragedy: Grieving families in overnight vigil with remains of students before flight home

The remnants of the Library Gardens apartment building balcony that collapsed. Inset: The six students who lost their lives in the tragic accident, top left to bottom right: Lorcan Miller, Eoghan Culligan, Nick Schuster, Ashley Donohoe, Eimear Walsh and Olivia Burke

Liam Kelly

THE families of some of the six Irish students who died after falling from a balcony in California have laid flowers at the scene before the flight to bring home the remains of four of them is due to leave on Saturday evening from San Francisco airport.