Mourners pay respects to German air crash victims

Grieving relatives and friends gathered in the Ural Mountains city of Ufa today to pay their final respects to 28 people killed in last week’s air crash over Germany.

More than 1,000 people came to Ufa’s central square where Muslim and Russian Orthodox ceremonies were held to mourn the victims, including 26 children, who died in the collision over Germany between a Russian Tu-154 and a DHL cargo plane piloted by Briton Paul Phillip.