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Memorial for Air India disaster Families bereaved by
the Air India disaster off Ahakista have strengthened their ties with
the Co. Cork village with the creation of a memorial monument featuring
a piece of local rock.
The remembrance wall unveiled in the western Canadian city of Vancouver
incorporates a single black stone from Ahakista to mark the place where
much of the wreckage of the bombed flight was washed up on shore.
The wall, which is inscribed with the names of the 331 passengers, crew
and baggage handlers who died in the 1985 atrocity is one of a series
of memorials being erected at key locations around Canada to give families
dispersed across the country a selection of places to grieve, remember
and reflect.
Ahakista Memorial Committee chairman Michael Murphy said it was appropriate
the families would have somewhere close to home where they can share their
memories. He said: “This is a stunning place. It is so natural
overlooking the water, the trees, the flowers.”
“The whole setting is just absolutely beautiful.”
A public inquiry into the disaster opened in Canada last year and is still
under way.
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