Sunday 22 December 2013

WORLD LEADERS HOLD MEMORIALS ON 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF LOCKERBIE ATTACK



The UK, US and Libyan governments have vowed to work together to reveal "the full facts" of the Lockerbie bombing which claimed 270 lives.
They also called for proper sanction for what they termed the most brutal act of terrorism.
The administrations also expressed their deep condolences to the families of the victims.
They made the resolve yesterday, on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of Pan American flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.

At a memorial in Scotland, the officiating priest said the evil of terrorism confront us daily.
The Lockerbie bombing remains the deadliest act of terrorism ever committed in the UK and until the attacks of 9/11 it was also responsible for the biggest single loss of American lives in such an attack.
The Boeing 747 was just over half an hour into its flight from London to New York when it exploded, seconds before 19:03 UK time, on 21 December 1988.
All 243 passengers and 16 crew died, and a further 11 people were killed in their homes when wreckage hit the ground in Lockerbie

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