Sobbing families of Korea ferry victims sit in road outside presidential palace


Family members of children who died on the sunken Sewol ferry sit on a road leading to the Presidential Blue House as they are surrounded by police in Seoul May 9, 2014. REUTERS/Song Eun-seok/News1

SEOUL (Reuters) - Family members of hundreds of children who drowned when a ferry sank last month sat in the road in a sombre vigil steps from the presidential palace on Friday, demanding those responsible be punished.

President Park Geun-hye did not emerge to meet the 400 relatives who had marched in darkness to her Blue House office but sent two of her top aides to listen to their demands, including the sacking of a state broadcast official for insulting comments.

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