Lockerbie families mark anniversary
Updated on 21 December 2008
Thousands of people have held a minute's silence to remember the victims of the Lockerbie bombing.
Tributes were paid at services across the UK and in the US on the 20th anniversary of the atrocity, when Pan Am Flight 103 from Heathrow to New York exploded in the skies above the Scottish town in 1988.
All 259 people on board were killed and a further 11 died in Lockerbie where the wreckage fell to the ground.
In Lockerbie, hundreds of residents gathered at ceremonies at Dryfesdale and Tundergarth churches.
The Rev Sandy Stoddart told the congregation at Dryfesdale: "I have printed 270 names on the back of the order of service. This is a list of those who died.
"But it is not a list of the victims, because we can never list all those names. Nobody but God knows all the names on the list."
At Heathrow, former employees of the Pan Am airline joined relatives of some of the 33 British victims at a memorial at Heathrow Airport chapel, led by the Rev John Mosey, whose daughter Helga died in the disaster.
Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was jailed for life after being convicted of mass murder following a trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands in 2001.
Al Megrahi, who was recently diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, has consistently denied responsibility for the bombing and a second appeal against his conviction will be heard by the courts next year.
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