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Ranbir Bhinder recalled Saturday how his entire family was “shattered” by the 1985 Air India bombing that left his pilot brother Satwinder dead.

Bhinder, who is visiting from India, attended his first memorial to commemorate the 331 victims of the Air India bombings 33 years ago.

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“The 23rd of June 1985, as you all know, shattered the lives of hundreds of families and ours was one of them,” Bhinder said, standing in front of the stone wall that bears the name of his brother and the other victims of Canada’s deadliest terrorist attack.

“This really did shatter us and really for a few years — nobody could really think of getting into an airliner,” he said, adding that now eight others in the family are pilots. “His son his now again a pilot with Air India.”

Bhinder was among dozens of family members, politicians and supporters who attended the annual event.

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix, whose wife Renee Saklikar lost her aunt and uncle in the bombing, said the flags were flying half-mast at the B.C. legislature to remember the victims.