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The family died when a 260ft section of the bridge crashed to the ground amid a thunderstorm on Tuesday.

Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco was applauded when he chose bless Samuele’s coffin first.

Relatives said the family were going on holiday to Sardinia. One relative at the scene alerted firefighters after seeing Samuele’s favourite Spider-man football in their car among the rubble – along with a bucket, spade and beach umbrella still in its packaging.

The death toll hit 43 yesterday as the bodies of a family of three and a man of 31 were found in the rubble.

Cristian Cecala, wife Dawna and their daughter Krystal, nine, had been going to catch a ferry to Elba.

Fire crews also found the body of Mirko Vicini buried beneath the debris. His mum had been crying at the foot of the collapsed bridge waiting for the recovery of his body.

And truck driver Marian Rosca, believed to be 36, died in hospital after being in a coma since the tragedy.

No one else is believed to be missing, although rescuers warned of finding more bodies as there may be some homeless unaccounted for.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella stopped at the scene for 20 minutes before the state funeral and was said to be moved as he saw the wrecked Cecala family car.

The service had tears, applause and jeers but the overwhelming sense was profound grief. Archbishop Bagnasco said the collapse was a “catastrophe” and had created a “gash at the heart of Genoa”.

Crowds clapped and cheered rescue workers who came to pay their respects but booed some politicians. The men and women of the emergency services filed past the coffins and one firefighter, Giampiero Ruggiero, embraced a victim’s mum.

He said: “I told her it’s not easy for us and, yes, that we would have liked THE Italian government has set up a commission to examine the causes of the Morandi bridge disaster. It is feared mafia-linked construction firms may have used poor quality cement when building it in the 1960s. Giuseppe Conte to do even more.” Footballers from Genovese sides Genoa and Sampdoria, whose Serie A games were cancelled, were also applauded as they arrived side-by-side in a show of unity.

The coffin of dock worker Andrea Cerulli, 48, was surrounded by grieving is Prime Minister in the right-wing coalition formed by the Five Star movement and the League Party.

Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio and League Party leader Matteo Salvini, his deputies, were applauded at the state funeral.

Italian politics was dominated for decades by multi-millionaire Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

But he was ousted in 2011 after the financial crisis and the Democratic Party led for five years until June’s elections. No party got the 40 per cent majority needed to lead the country. family members. One relative wept as they explained before the service how Andrea was on the bridge because he had switched shifts to attend his grandmother’s birthday celebrations.

The relative, who did not wish to be named, said: “We support the state funeral as we don’t blame a specific government, especially the one there now who’ve only been in a few months.

“We blame the people within the state and they know who are guilty.”

The solemn mood changed when Democratic Party leader Maurizio Martina walked in. His party was the majority party in the government for five years, until it was defeated in the recent general election.

The crowd cried “clown” and “shame” and fists were shaken amid screams of “justice”. The protestors