The Lockerbie Bombing took place on the 21st December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed into the town of Lockerbie after a bomb exploded during the flight. The 270 victims (259 on the plane and eleven in Lockerbie) were citizens of twenty-one different nations. One man was convicted of the bombing, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi; later released to Libya on compassionate grounds.
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