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Hungary marks anniversary of Danube boat disaster – PHOTOS
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With the tolling of a bell and a wreath lowered into the water, Hungary marked the second anniversary on Saturday of a Budapest boat accident which killed 27 people, mostly South Korean tourists, in the worst river accident on the Danube in decades.
The 135-metre (443 ft) Swiss river cruiser Viking Sigyn hit a 27-metre (88 ft) tourist boat called Mermaid, causing it to capsize and sink under a bridge during heavy rain on the evening of May 29, 2019.
“It is still very strange to be here,”
said Zsolt Sógor, a legal representative of the company that owned the Mermaid. “I am here because there are many for whom this day opens deep wounds.”
After a sailor lowered the wreath into the river from a boat, those on board threw flowers into the water to remember the victims at the commemoration event, led by the Hungarian Ecumenical Church.
Of 33 passengers and two crew members,
only seven Korean passengers survived.
