A black flag flutters on deck of a boat taking part in a ceremony to honour the victims on the 1st anniversary of the Mermaid boat accident near Margaret bridge, on the Danube river, in Budapest, Hungary, May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Officials from Hungary and South Korea held a minute's silence and threw white flowers onto the waters of the Danube on Friday, marking the first anniversary of a boat accident which killed 25 South Korean tourists and two Hungarian crew.
All 27 victims were from the Mermaid, a small tourist boat which sank in just half a minute after it was hit by a much larger cruise liner under a bridge in Budapest in torrential rain on May 29, 2019.
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