Published April 18, 2016
Thousands of South Koreans are participating in memorial events nationwide for the more than 300 people who died in a ferry disaster two years ago that deeply rattled the country.
Police say about 2,500 people gathered for an event Saturday marking the second anniversary of the sinking at a memorial altar in Ansan, where most of the victims lived.
Nearly 5,000 others are expected in the evening at a square in the capital Seoul, where relatives of the victims had camped for months in protest.
A total of 304 people died when the ferry Sewol sank off South Korea's southwest coast in April 2014 in a disaster partially blamed on official incompetence and corruption. The captain is serving a life sentence over the sinking.
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