Paying his respects: Seoul’s Mayor Park Won-soon (centre) paying a visit to remember the Sewol ferry sinking victims at Jindo, South Korea. — EPA
SEOUL: Grieving relatives threw white chrysanthemums into the sea at the spot where the Sewol ferry sank, as South Korea marked the second anniversary of the disaster which killed 304.
Most of the victims were schoolchildren when the ship sank off the southwestern island of Jindo, in a tragedy caused by human error that shocked and enraged the country.
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