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Fundraiser for Air India bombing
suspects in Canada

TORONTO (AFP): Supporters of two Canadian Sikhs accused in the 1985 bombing of Air India jet Kanishka raised about 70,000 Canadian dollars on Wednesday for their legal defence at a fundraising banquet, according to a newspaper report.

About 300 people - nearly all of the Sikhs - attended the $100-a-plate fundraiser near Toronto's international airport organised by Balkar Singh Heir, an airport limousine driver, The Globe and Mail reported.

Millworker Ajaib Singh Bagri (51) and Ripudaman Singh Malik (53), a millionaire businessman, are accused of conspiracy in the 1985 bombing, which killed 329 people.

The bombing of Flight 182 is considered one of the worst acts of terrorism in aviation history.

The two men are also accused in the deaths of two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Japan when a bomb exploded in luggage being transferred to an Air India plane.

Both bombs are believed to have been placed aboard planes leaving Vancouver.

Heir told the newspaper he believes the two accused men are victims of a plot.

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Fundraiser for Air India bombing suspects in Canada

Fundraiser for Air India bombing
suspects in Canada