TEHRAN, Jan 9 — Bereaved friends and families joined in mourning after a Ukrainian airliner crashed near Tehran killing all 176 on board, as heartbreaking details started emerging about the victims, most of them from Iran and Canada. Both Canada and the United States called for a full...
Relatives of the flight crew members of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed in Iran, mourn at a memorial at the Boryspil International airport outside Kiev January 8, 2020. — Reuters pic
Search-and-rescue teams combed through the smoking wreckage of the Boeing 737 flight to Kiev, but officials said there was no hope of finding survivors. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered his “sincere condolences” to the bereaved families. Flowers and candles are placed in front of the portraits of the flight crew members of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed in Iran, at a memorial at the Boryspil International airport outside Kiev January 8, 2020. — Reuters picCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government would ensure a “thorough investigation” and that “Canadians’ questions are answered”.
“Many of these people were international students,” said Parseyan. “They worked tirelessly to get to where they were, all to lose it like this.”
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