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Air India Flight 182 tragedy accused acquitted.
Air India Flight 182 tragedy accused acquitted.

Kanishka tragedy accused acquitted in Canada
March 17, 2005

After a two-year trial, Justice Ian Josephson, a Canadian judge acquitted two Indian-born sikhs and accused masterminds, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, of murder and other charges in the deaths of 329 people killed in the bombing of Air India Flight 182 (also nicknamed Kanishka).

On June 23, 1985, Kanishka enroute from Montreal to London exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland.

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