Families of Kanishka bombing victims join 9/11 mourners

TORONTO: Friends and relatives of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US and the Air India bombing came together to remember their loved ones at a ceremony here.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day joined the mourners who gathered yesterday to mark the sixth anniversary of the terror strikes on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, in which 24 Canadians were among over 3,000 people killed.

"It's very important to remember and it's important to remind people that Canada is not immune from threat and from risk, and seeing the family members of people who were killed ... it reminds us of that," he said.
   
The names of the two dozen Canadians killed at the World Trade Center were solemnly read aloud, followed by a moment of silence.

Addressing the gathering, Susheel Gupta, who lost his mother in the 1985 bombing of Kanishka flight that left all 329 people aboard dead, condemned terrorists who use "a calculated plan" to attempt to kill innocent people.

"Let today be about those who died, those who we loved," Gupta, who represents the Air India Victims Families Association, was quoted as saying in media reports here.