Canadian PM unveils memorial to mark Kanishka bombing

Canada has unveiled a memorial in its business capital Toronto to mark the Kanishka Air-India bombing in 1985, which killed 329 people on board.

Canada has unveiled a memorial in its business capital Toronto to mark the Kanishka Air-India bombing in 1985, which killed 329 people on board.

Opening the memorial, featuring a sundial, gardens and a granite wall, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, “The tragedy on that dark day was a a shocking glimpse of what lurks at the core of some of our fellow human beings.”

“We must act to ensure such an atrocity is never again visited upon our fellow citizens,” Harper said on the sun-drenched shore of Lake

Ontario on Saturday.

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The memorial is inscribed with the names of the 329 people who were aboard the Flight 182 when it blew up off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985, and the names of the two baggage handlers who were killed in a related explosion at the Narita airport in Tokyo the same day.

Families of the victims said the memorial gives them a tangible place to grieve the loved ones they lost. About two-thirds of the Air-India bombing victims live in Toronto.