A mourning ceremony was held at the river port in Kazan Tuesday for those who drowned when the Bulgaria riverboat sank on Sunday.
A mourning ceremony was held at the river port in Kazan Tuesday for those who drowned when the Bulgaria riverboat sank on Sunday.
State flags flew at half mast on Tuesday, the official day of mourning for the Bulgaria riverboat victims.
Over 3,000 people laid flowers and toys and lit candles at the Kazan port.
The victims were honored with a minute of silence while ships blew their horns.
The commemoration ceremonies in Kazan lasted throughout the day.
The victims’ relatives visited the shipwreck site.
Many of the victims’ relatives were taken to the site of the Bulgaria riverboat tragedy.
People lowered wreaths onto the water and then a riverboat circled the site of the tragedy.
Transport Minister Igor Levitin, third left, and Head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, third right, attended the memorial service in the St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Kazan and at the city’s oldest mosque, Al Marjani.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lit a candle in memory of the deceased in the chapel at his Gorki residence near Moscow.
