The bodies of the six victims of last Sunday's fireworks factory explosion have been released for burial after new DNA results solved problems on the identification of two of them.

The funeral of Jean Pierre Azzopardi will be held on Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. at Xewkija while the other victims - Nenu Farrugia, his sons Noel and Raymond, daughter-in-law Antoinette and son-in-law Peter Paul Micallef will have a joint funeral at Fontana church on Wednesday at 3.30 p.m. There will be a corteo before each funeral.

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