LOCKERBIE, Scotland, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Several low-profile commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 were conducted Sunday in Lockerbie, Scotland, observers said.
The terrorist bombing of the airliner on Dec. 21, 1988, claimed the lives of 270 people. A few quiet ceremonies were held in the small town in accordance with the wishes of the community, the BBC reported.
They included the setting up of special "places to remember" in Lockerbie, a wreath-laying ceremony at the Dryfesdale Cemetery and evening services at the Tundergarth and Dryfesdale churches.
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer and the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, was convicted of murder in 2001 for the bombing is serving a 27-year sentence in a Scottish prison.
"You realize just how lucky we are to have had another 20 years of life," eyewitness Maxwell Kerr told the BBC. "These people who died -- that was it, snuffed out in one second. I think you have never to forget this, it is too big an event, it is too big a disaster."
