Vancouver: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has launched an official inquiry into the bombing of an Air India passenger plane more than 20 years ago.
Air India Flight 182 from Canada to India crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland in June 1985, killing all 329 people on board.
Last year two Canadian men were acquitted of the bombing.
Families of the victims have been pressuring the Canadian government to hold an inquiry ever since. The government resisted, agreeing only reluctantly to a limited investigation.
But following national elections early this year, the campaign suddenly found a sympathetic ear in the new prime minister, Stephen Harper.
Now Mr Harper has told parliament that a full inquiry will begin immediately.
The aim, he says, is to prevent future acts of terrorism in Canada and to provide missing answers about the Air India bombing.
02/05/06 Ian Gunn/BBC News
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