Cork remembers victims of Air India bombing

Ceremony to mark 36th anniversary of terrorist bomb which killed 329 passengers and crew took place online for a second year

The Memorial to the Air India flight 182 at Ahakista in West Cork, with pictures of the victims at the monument for the 30th anniversary in 2015. Picture: Dan Linehan

The victims of the 1985 Air India bombing were remembered by the people of Cork in a virtual ceremony today, on the 36th anniversary of the terrorist attack which took place off the west coast of Cork

All 329 passengers and crew on board Flight 182 from Montreal to New Delhi were killed when a bomb placed by Sikh terrorists exploded on the Boeing 747 about 160km off the Irish coast.