They grew up together in the same village, from which they all fled the violence, only to miraculously find each other again in the Netherlands after a long and wandering journey. Five Eritrean youths were in the car that, on the return journey from an Eritrean party, was involved in a fatal accident near Enkhuizen for reasons that are still unclear. Of the eight occupants of the three cars involved in the accident, three died: the boys sitting in the back seat. A 17-year-old compatriot who was sitting in the front fell into a coma; the fifth was seriously injured.
Funeral director Erwin Livestro from Dronten also doesn't know exactly what happened. "They weren't driving fast, they weren't doing anything illegal. It's not the safest road; I know the dike well myself. Maybe they were tired. The police are still investigating, but we haven't heard anything about it." He does know, however, that no one responded to the question of what was to be done with the bodies after they were picked up by a transport company. "That's when we started calling. We have a family business. We heard about it and my son said: 'Shouldn't we just go and help?'"
