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The foreign ministers of Spain, France and Germany have attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Barcelona’s airport in memory of the 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash last month.

School children bring candles in front of the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, western Germany Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings plane from Barcelona crashed on its way to Duesseldorf over the French alps today, 16 school children and 2 teachers from Haltern are under the victims.

School children bring candles in front of the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, western Germany Tuesday, March 24, 2015. A Germanwings plane from Barcelona crashed on its way to Duesseldorf over the French alps today, 16 school children and 2 teachers from Haltern are under the victims. Image by (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Spain’s Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, France’s Laurent Fabius and Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier joined government officials from the regional government of Catalonia – whose capital is Barcelona – to lay three wreaths in a silent ceremony outside the airport.

The Germanwings flight took off from Barcelona on March 24 and was heading for the German city of Dusseldorf but crashed in southern France.

Most of the victims were German or Spanish.

(Press Association)