Canadian police have arrested two Sikhs in connection with the bombing of an Air India plane which resulted in the deaths of all 329 passengers, according to the BBC. The plane was travelling from Toronto to Delhi via London on June 23, 1985, when it was blown up over the Irish coast.
The men were arrested in Vancouver, where one of the men is the president of a small bank. The other is a sawmill worker from interior Canada. Police have said that more arrests may follow.
The men - Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik - were charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and conspiracy. They’ve also been charged with a second bomb blast on the ground at Tokyo's Narita airport, where a suitcase about to be loaded on an Air India plane blew up, killing two baggage handlers. This happened less than an hour on the same day as the other Air India bombing.
The bombing took place at a time when tensions were running high in India, following the storming of the Golden Temple by Indian troops in 1984.
The investigation has been one of the longest and costliest ($15m) in Canadian history.
- nriol.com report
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