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Teacher husband one of 328 killed

Anna Marie D’Angelo
News Reporter adangelo@nsnews.com

ON June 23, 1985, Perviz Madcit was in
Bombay with her two young children awaiting
the arrival of her husband, Sam.

Sam Madon worked aya teacher at the Pacific Marine Training Institute
in North Vancouver. He had worked there for ning ¥

Persiz and the children, Eddie, then eight, and Natasha, four, had by
in India since May visiting Perviz? parents.

Sam coulda‘t go until he was finished teaching in June, che month he
turned 41. Sanv boarded a plane in Vancouver te go join his famiiy.

He was aboard Air India flight 182 when it exploded a short time later
off the coast of Ireland. AH 329 people aboard were killed by the bomb
which was widely believed to have been planted in Vancouver by B.C. Sikh
extremist

In the vears since, ROMP fave been investigating the Air India
bonsbing and a bay plosion in Narita, Japan froma Vancouver fight
that occurred around the same time. Two baggage handlers were killed.

Last Friday, members of the Air India Task Foree at RCMP headquar-
ters in Vancouver announced charges against two men in connection with
the bombings.

Ripudaman Singh Malik
of Kamlooy
EB orourder conspir
India Flight 182;
$8 first degree murder of 329 people aboard Air India Flight 182;

B avempted murder of the people aboard Air india Flight 301 by sceking
to place a bomb aboard the atreratt,

first degree murder of Hideo Asano and Hideharu Koda, baggage ban-
dlers in Narita, Japan.

Indenjit Singh Revar and “Taiwinder Singh Parmar are unindicted co-
accused in the charg vat, from Vancouver IMand, was convicted in
1991 of manslaughter of the Japanese baggage handlers. He has almos:
compleied his jail sentence. Parmar, the chief bombing suspect, was killed
in police custody in the Punjab in 1992.

Bagri has also been charged with the attempted murder of Sikh jour-
nalist Yara Singh Haver in TOSS. (Haver was murdered ten years later in
Surrey.)

Yesterday Perviz, recalled how she first learned about ber husband's

aa eo ‘ murder.
NEWS photo Mike Waketicid “One of my friends called me trom England because he was going to be
there in transit and made that difficult call” said Perviz. She lett her chit

Rock a nd ro I i dren with her parents and went to England and then to Ireland. “1 was one

of the lucky few (whose foved one’s body was retrieved)... L came back to

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