9/09/2011

Belarus mourns Russian air crash victims


Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko carries a bunch of flowers as he skates on the ice during a commemorative event at the Minsk-Arena sports complex in Minsk, Sept 8, 2011. A passenger plane carrying Russian ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to a season-opening match crashed after takeoff from a provincial airport on Wednesday, killing 43 people and plunging the Russian and international sports world into grief. The match would have taken place at the sports complex in the Belarus capital on Thursday.


Women hold candles during a commemorative event at the Minsk-Arena sports complex in Minsk, Sept 8, 2011.


A woman reacts as she holds a portrait of Daniil Sobchenko, a member of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) Russian ice hockey team Lokomotiv, during a commemorative event at the Minsk-Arena sports complex in Minsk, Sept 8, 2011.


4Belarussian hockey players from Dinamo Minsk attend a commemorative event at the Minsk-Arena sports complex in Minsk, Sept 8, 2011.

(Agencies)

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