Thousands join Ljubljana WWII memorial hike

Thousands of hikers and runners took part in the 65th Walk along the Wire in Ljubljana in a culmination of a three-day event in memory of the barbed wire that kept the city under the lockout during the Second World War.

The hugely popular annual event got under way on 4 May as almost 6,000 kids from Ljubljana's kindergartens walked short sections of the 35-kilometre gravel path around the city.

The next day about 13,000 school children took part, and on 6 May more than 13,000 hikers joined in the walk and close to 4,000 runners competed in the run of three member teams,...