Balgarianovinite.com The 17th anniversary of the Ilinden ship tragedy, in which 15 Bulgarian tourists died, was marked in Ohrid on Saturday.
Fresh flowers were laid at the lakeside monument to the victims by representatives of Bulgaria’s diplomatic missions in Skopje and Bitola, the Bulgarian Cultural and Information Centre in Skopje, the Ohrid municipal administration and associations representing the Bulgarian community in the Republic of North Macedonia.
Petar Petrov, Bulgaria’s Consul General in Bitola, recalled the tragedy which occurred on September 5, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. local time, when the Ilinden tourist boat carrying 57 passengers from Ohrid to the St Naum Monastery capsized and sank about 250 metres from the lake shore. A group of Bulgarian tourists from Pirdop and the villages of Anton, Ribaritsa, Mirkovo and Zlatitsa was on board.
Petrov thanked the crew members of the Aleksandrija and the Kristina, the emergency responders and soldiers involved in the rescue, and the residents of Ohrid who helped save passengers from the sinking Ilinden.
Representatives of Bulgaria’s diplomatic missions in North Macedonia have marked the anniversary of the tragedy every year since 2009. The monument to the victims on the shore of Lake Ohrid was unveiled on September 5, 2020.
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