27 November 2010, 14:00
Memorial sign opened in St Petersburg on anniversary of the "Neva-Express" train explosion
Today, Russia commemorates victims of the terror act committed in the evening on November 27 last year with the "Neva-Express" train. As a result of the train crash 28 persons were lost and more than 90 were injured.
Today, one year after the tragedy, a memorial board was opened in the Moscow Train Station in St Petersburg. The board was installed in the Light Hall in front of the exit to the platform. For the whole day people come here, bring flowers and light candles. Relatives of the casualties commemorate their lost ones in cemeteries, the ITAR-TASS reports.
"The whole of Russia commemorates today the victims of this tragedy. Even now, a year later, it is very difficult to talk about it. Close people were lost; and this loss is irrecoverable," said Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St Petersburg, who laid flowers to the memorial board with the names of those perished. "We must do everything possible to ensure that such tragedies in our country never happen again."
On November 29, the Committee on Social Welfare and the Oktiabrskaya Railway will bring the casualties' relatives who live in St Petersburg to the place of the tragedy, where a funeral ceremony and a memorial service will be held, and where Muscovites will be also delivered. Two trains will depart simultaneously from the Moscow Railway Station of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Railway Station of Moscow, the "Echo Moskvy" Radio reports.
