Original sentence: At a commemoration ceremony on 6 May 2001 in the Belgian town of Dinant, attended by Belgium’s defense minister Andre Flahaut, World War II veterans, and the ambassadors of Germany, France and Britain, state secretary of the German Ministry of Defence, Walter Kolbow, officially apologised for a massacre of 674 civilians that took place on 23 August 1914 in the aftermath of the Battle of Dinant:.Mr Kolbow placed a wreath and bowed before a monument to the victims bearing the inscription: To the 674 Dinantais martyrs, innocent victims of German barbarism
Edited sentence: A ceremony took place on 6 May 2001, in Dinant.Walter Kolbow, a high secretary at the Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany, placed a wreath and bowed before a monument to the victims bearing the inscription: To the 674 Dinantais martyrs, innocent victims of German barbarism