The line of several hundred Irish teenagers stretched from the port up to the medical centre of the Greek island of Ios, all standing silently as the bodies of 18-year-olds Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall were placed on a ferry leaving the island
Students from other schools gathered along either side of the road to the port in near total silence on Tuesday morning, as a mark of respect.
Sofia Toka, who works in a ferry company’s office by the port, said it was a touching tribute to the two teenagers. “The respect, they don’t move, they have their heads down. So silent as they say goodbye in their own way,” she told The Irish Times. After the postmortems are completed, preparations will be made to repatriate the bodies to Ireland for the two funerals.
Elsewhere, near a hill on the outskirts of the island’s main town of Hora, a small bouquet of flowers marks the spot where Andrew O’Donnell’s body was found on Sunday morning. It is suspected he fell down the steep slope of the rocky hill while walking home from a night out on the island.
Several of the St Michael’s group, including Max, had undertaken a significant search effort to find their missing friend, circulating messages on social media and handing out missing-person fliers to local businesses.How tragedy unfolded on the Greek Island of Ios
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