Grandmother's grief as she buries heightens tragedy

Grandmother Svetlana Atamaniuk sobbed and moaned as she paced the pavement opposite Lviv’s central morgue, overflowing with bodies from the Ukrainian air show crash that killed 83.

Grandmother's grief as she buries heightens tragedy

Grandmother Svetlana Atamaniuk sobbed and moaned as she paced the pavement opposite Lviv’s central morgue, overflowing with bodies from the Ukrainian air show crash that killed 83.

For 30 hours, she waited to find out whether her family was among them. Today, overcome by waves of grief, she buried her only daughter, son-in-law and two granddaughters in an overgrown cemetery.

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