London – Lockerbie Bombing Victims Remembered On 30th Anniversary

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    The shadow of a member of the public is seen looking at the main memorial stone in memory of the victims of Pan Am flight 103 bombing, in the garden of remembrance at Dryfesdale Cemetery, near Lockerbie, Scotland. Friday Dec. 21, 2018. Pan Am flight 103 was blown apart above the Scottish border town of Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988. All 269 passengers and crew on the flight and 11 people on the ground were killed in the bombing. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell).London – Memorial services are being held in Scotland and the United States to remember the 270 people killed when a Pan Am passenger plane exploded over the town of Lockerbie 30 years ago.

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    Wreaths will be placed in their memory on Friday.

    On Dec. 21, 1988, 259 people on board Pan Am Flight 103 from London Heathrow Airport to New York were killed, and 11 more died on the ground, after the plane exploded in midair.

    Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi was convicted of the crime in a court in the Netherlands in 2001. He was the only person found guilty.

    Al-Megrahi died of cancer nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds in 2009.
    A member of the public is seen looking at the main memorial stone in memory of the victims of Pan Am flight 103 bombing, in the garden of remembrance at Dryfesdale Cemetery, near Lockerbie, Scotland. Friday Dec. 21, 2018. Pan Am flight 103 was blown apart above the Scottish border town of Lockerbie on Dec. 21, 1988. All 269 passengers and crew on the flight and 11 people on the ground were killed in the bombing. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell).
    FILE - In this Dec. 1988 file photo, a police officer walks past the wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland, of Pan Am Flight 103. In 1988, 270 people were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard the Pan Am flight Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, sending wreckage crashing to the ground. (AP Photo/File)
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