DNA evidence from Lockerbie bomb suitcase

FORENSIC experts have extracted DNA from the suitcase that contained the Lockerbie bomb in a major breakthrough in the investigation.

- By Richard Ashmore

The mid-air explosion on board Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988 killed 270 people in Britain’s worst terrorist atrocity.

Now new technology has allowed Scottish scientists to gain forensic clues from inside the luggage lining and an umbrella in the suitcase.

The blast killed 259 passengers and crew along with 11 people on the ground hit by falling wreckage.

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