Relatives of Air India victims gather for ceremony

RELATIVES of some of the 329 people killed during one of the world’s deadliest terrorist attacks will gather in west Cork this week to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Air India disaster.

Joined by dignitaries from the Irish embassies of India and Canada, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, will lay a wreath at the peninsula memorial garden in Ahakista.

Wednesday’s early morning event is being organised by Cork County Council which maintains the commemoration site.