article_snippet: In small groups, the teenagers lined up to lay tributes to the teenagers lost classmates before hugging each other wordlessly, or dissolving into tears.
article_snippet: As news of the crash spread, the area at the entrance to the school became a makeshift memorial, filled with red and white candles, notes and swiftly-painted signs.
article_snippet: Grief counselors, chaplains and psychologists have been brought in to the school to help all of those involved come to terms with the disaster.
article_snippet: The local newspaper is running an online book of condolence, in which people can leave messages of sympathy and "light" virtual candles to match the real ones flickering on the steps of the school.
article_snippet: In an attempt to show that solidarity, schools across the region will share a moment of silence in memory of the dead on Friday at 10:53 a.m., the time the plane crashed.
highlights_snippet: German town of Haltern in mourning after loss of 16 students and two teachers in plane crash .
  
highlights_snippet: Headteacher says school is in mourning, classmates struggling to understand what happened .