1985 Narita International Airport bombing

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The 1985 Narita International Airport bombing was the attempted terrorist bombing of Air India Flight 301, which took place on June 23, 1985. A bomb hidden in a suitcase transiting through Narita International Airport, then known as New Tokyo International Airport, exploded at 06:19 in a baggage handling room, killing two baggage handlers and injuring another four. The bomb exploded prematurely while the plane was still grounded. The attack at Narita was part of an attempted double-bombing orchestrated by Talwinder Singh Parmar, a Canadian national, and the Khalistani terrorist organization, Babbar Khalsa. The bombs were made by Inderjit Singh Reyat. The suitcase bomb originated in Vancouver, Canada, and arrived in Tokyo on CP Air Flight 003. It was transiting Narita Airport to be loaded onto Air India Flight 301, which flew from Tokyo to Bangkok and then on to Delhi, India. The initial plan was for the Air India Flight 301 bomb to explode at the same time as the one that had been planted...

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