Lockerbie: Bomber's release will be 20 years after atrocity

On December 21 last year, mourners gathered for a series of events to remember those who were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown apart by a bomb hidden in a suitcase.

In Lockerbie, a commemorative wreath was laid at Dryfesdale Cemetery in the Scottish market town, and services were held there and at Tundergarth church on the hills outside Lockerbie to mark the moment when the plane came down at 7.03pm on that day in 1988.

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