People bring flowers to VGTRK headquarters as tribute to journalists killed near Luhansk

Russia June 18, 2014, 13:49

Later in the day the bodies of the two journalists will be returned to their relatives

MOSCOW, June 18. /ITAR-TASS/. People with flowers and candles in their hands have been heading towards the headquarters of the VGTRK media holding on the 5th Yamskogo Polya street in Moscow in tribute of journalist Igor Kornelyuk and video engineer Anton Voloshin killed near Ukraine’s Luhansk on June 17.

Both were killed in a mortar attack on the settlement of Metallist, where the two Russian journalists were filming members of self-defense forces as they helped the local population leave the war zone. Both journalists had ‘TV’ identification symbols on their clothes.

Later in the day the bodies of the two journalists will be returned to their relatives.

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