Susheel Gupta was only 12 years old when his mother died in what became known as the Aircraft bombardment.
On June 23, 2025, marked 40 years since the bombing.
Gupta went to Ireland with his father a few days after the bombing.
“I think that if you were to speak to all the members of the family of the victims, one thing they will all say, is that we have been treated with the greatest dignity, the respect, the compassion of all those with whom we interacted in Ireland, whether police, kept it, the hospital nurses and the ordinary citizens,” Crime, said Gupta.

The 182 air of Air India was exploded on the Atlantic Ocean on June 23, 1985, killing the 329 passengers and the crew, most of whom were Canadian citizens.
The flight started from Montreal, on the way to India, when it exploded and crashed off the coast of Ireland. Above the same time, aboard a second plane that had left Canada, a suitcase passing through Narita Japanese airport exploded, killing two luggage managers.

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Air India’s bombing is the deadliest terrorist attack in Canadian history.
Gupta said that he remembers two Irish citizens giving him that his father’s impermeable father when he was raining one day during their visit.
“We didn’t have one,” he said. “We hadn’t had time to plan. It is the kindness that we have seen right, and it is a strong and strong memory of a great penchant for the inhabitants of Ireland and how we were treated there. ”

After the death of his mother, Gupta devoted his life to work with the criminal justice system and now he helps organizations around the world to prepare and respond to the victims of terrorism and mass incidents.
He said Canada has traveled a long way since the Air India bombing in 1985.
“There is even more work to do, but we are in a much better position than 40 years ago,” said Gupta.
“And I can tell you that, you know, there have been a few requests, Mass commissionand looking at the events of the Portapic Nova Scotia, the Goodale report which examined the drop in Ukraine Airlines, PS752And they both made recommendations that Canada develops a type of national program or national center to support victims of terrorism and mass victims. »»
A memorial will take place in Stanley Park at 6 p.m. on June 23 to honor and remember those who were killed in the attack.
This dark birthday arrives the same day that the RCMP confirmed that an unidentified man linked to the air bombing India has died.
Man, known only under the name of “M. X, “accompanied by Talwinder Singh Parmar, later identified as the brain of the attack, on a vancouver ferry in Duncan on June 4, 1985.
Parmar was to inspect an explosive apparatus and the RCMP investigators said that Mr. X had stayed in Duncan and had been shown a Bush bomb experience.
“The RRC investigators of the integrated team of the Application of National Security Laws – Pacific Region (INSETP) confirm that they have discovered information related to a suspect that they believe in the test of an explosive device before the Terrorist India Terrorist attack on June 23, 1985,” confirmed the GRC in a statement sent by email on Monday.
“However, there has been no sufficient evidence to unequivocally confirm the identification of this suspect. Investigators confirm that the suspect has died. “
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