U.K.'s King Charles marks Air India tragedy with black armband
發佈日期: 2025-06-15 11:50
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King Charles, other members of the U.K. royal family and soldiers wore black armbands and observed a moment of silence during Charles' annual birthday parade as the monarch remembered those who died in the Air India plane crash.
Charles requested the symbolic moves "as a mark of respect for the lives lost, the families in mourning and all the communities affected by this awful tragedy," Buckingham Palace said.
An Air India flight from the northwestern city of Ahmedabad to London crashed shortly after takeoff on Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground.
The plane was carrying 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. One man survived.
Charles is the head of the Commonwealth, an organization of independent states that includes India and Canada.
The monarch's annual birthday parade, known as Trooping the Colour, is a historic ceremony filled with pageantry and military bands in which the king reviews his troops on Horse Guards Parade adjacent to St. James' Park in central London.
