Estonia, Sweden honor 1994 ferry disaster victims

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in Estonia and Sweden to commemorate 852 people killed in one of Europe’s worst peacetime disasters 20 years ago when the Estonia ferry sank en route from Tallinn to Stockholm.

Mourners in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, laid flowers at a monument — lit by 852 torches — after a six-hour concert that lasted the length of the fateful voyage on the night of Sept. 27-28, 1994.