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Estonia, Sweden honor 1994 ferry disaster victims

By Washington Examiner
Published September 28, 2014 4:24pm ET
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Estonia, Sweden honor 1994 ferry disaster victims
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf lays a wreath of flowers in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday Sept. 28, 2014, at the memorial for the victims of the catastrophic sinking of the MS Estonia. Crowds gathered to commemorate 852 people killed, including 501 Swedes, in one of Europe's worst peacetime disasters 20-years ago when the Estonia ferry sank en route from Tallinn to Stockholm on September 28, 1994. Only 173 people were rescued after the ship sank when its bow doors were ripped open in a storm in the early hours of the morning. (AP photo / TT News Agency, Claudio Bresciani) SWEDEN OUT | Claudio Bresciani

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.

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