Three years after one of Romania’s worst fire which occurred during a free concert performed at the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, priests and believers offered their prayers for the rest of the souls of the victims.
Rev. Ioan Armasi, an Orthodox dean in Bucharest, together with an assembly of priests went Tuesday morning to the Bucur Square where the club was located to commemorate the 64 mostly young people who lost their lives in the fire.
Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis joined the victims’ family members in paying homage to those who ended their lives tragically in 2015.
His Excellency laid flowers at the wooden memorial cross erected in the memory of the 64 victims.
Earlier on Tuesday a memorial service was officiated at the Colectiv victims’ monument at St Nicholas Brosteni Church.
The Colectiv nightclub fire was a deadly fire in Bucharest, Romania, on 30 October 2015, which killed 64 people (26 on site, 38 in hospitals) and injured 146.
Photography courtesy of Raluca Ene / Basilica.ro
