Canadian poet collaborates on musical about Air India

A Canadian poet who lost family in the Air India disaster is collaborating with Irish artists on a new musical to mark the 30th anniversary of the terrorist bombing.

Award-winning Vancouver-based Renée Sarojini Saklikar was aged 23 when she lost her aunt Zebunnisa and uncle Umar in the bombing of Flight 182.

Despite a massive search and recovery operation, her uncle’s body was never recovered. They were among 329 who died with the Air India flight was blown from the skies off the south west coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985.