Air Lanka Flight 512 Bombing Kills 21, Injures 41 – May 3, 1986
Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
Date: May 3, 1986
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