Lockerbie remembers 1988 air bombing

Updated: 22:19, Sunday, 21 December 2008

Lockerbie in Scotland remembered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 with low-key ceremonies today.

1 of 3Lockerbie - Wreaths laid in remembrance
Lockerbie - Wreaths laid in remembrance
2 of 3Lockerbie - Flight 105 bombed in 1988
Lockerbie - Flight 105 bombed in 1988
3 of 3Lockerbie - Plane blew crater in town
Lockerbie - Plane blew crater in town

Lockerbie residents of the small town will never forget the terror of the night 20 years ago when a plane exploded above them.

Burning wreckage and bodies rained down from the sky after Flight 103 was blown up, killing all 259 people on board as well as 11 on the ground on 21 December 1988.

A huge crater was formed by the plane's fuselage which had plummeted to the ground after a bomb onboard exploded less than an hour into the flight from London to New York.

The houses that once stood there were left as shells.

Today the crater has been filled, replaced by a remembrance garden planted with rhododendrons and fir trees.

A line of new brick houses has been built, and only a plaque bears witness to the residents of Lockerbie who died.

Wreaths will be placed today at the marble monument bearing the names of the victims which has been erected the Dryfesdale cemetery, at the entrance to the town.

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