Ottawa: The full horror of the 1985 Air India bombing was driven home Wednesday, as rescuers described the harrowing task of pulling broken human remains from the sea off the coast of Ireland.
Daniel Brown, a Scottish-born merchant seaman on the MV Laurentian Forest, a commercial vessel that was one of the first on the scene, told of wrestling bodies slick with oil onto a lifeboat.
Some were dismembered, one with torso split and intestines spilling out.
At one point the lifeboat was nearly sucked beneath the screws of the Laurentian Forest in the rough seas.
The enormity of what had happened took time to sink in once he had returned to port.
"I went to my cabin and just cried."
Earlier in the day, an emotional Seanie Murphy had described the bodies and wreckage floating at the crash when he and other Irish rescue workers arrived.
He'd recovered other bodies at sea, said Murphy, but none of those events were as devastating as this one.
27/09/06 Jim Brown/CP/Calgary Sun, Canada
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