Hungary marks national holiday a week later with fireworks

BUDAPEST, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Hungary marked its national holiday Saturday with an airshow and grand fireworks over the Danube River with a delay of seven days, as the original celebration had been cancelled due to thunderstorm warning by the Hungarian Meteorological Service (OMSZ).

Tens of thousands of people started to gather on the Danube bank and the Margit Bridge at around 7:30 p.m. when three Gripen fighter jets of the Hungarian Defense Forces passed over the city in tandem.