Ukraine crash: Canadian family, 4 passengers boarding. The smallest
list of only one-year-old victims
Overseas Network January 9th-From the morning of January 8th, a UkrainianAirlines plane crashed a few minutes after taking off at the Iranian capitalTehran International Airport. None of the 167 passengers and 9 crewmembers aboard the plane survived, including 63 Canadians. Scholarsreturning from vacations, brides and grooms returning from weddings, and a1-year-old girl accompanying her parents were all victims of the plane crash.
According to the British source The Guardian, 30 Canadian victims were fromEdmonton, including a family of four, including Edmonton's Pedram Moussavi, hiswife Moggen Da Nishman and his two daughters Daria and Darina. The coupleare both professors of engineering at the University of Alberta. Their twodaughters are 14 and 9 years old, respectively. At first, the couple tooktheir children home by air, but unfortunately they could not land safely inCanada.
A family of four professors at the University of Alberta (Source: Twitter)
Iranian media said that many of the passengers on the plane were students andthey returned to Iran to visit family and friends during the wintervacation. The University of Ottawa has confirmed that three of itsstudents were killed in the air crash. The Toronto School District Boardand the York School District Board said that some victims, including studentsfrom their schools, have lowered their flags at the victim's school and theboard office.
The victims also include 30-year-old Ontario resident Ivan Arsalani and38-year-old husband Shiva Morani. The couple has just concluded theirwedding and are returning from Iran with their one-year-olddaughter. Arsalani's sister told the media, "At the moment, I don'tcare how the plane crash happened. What I care about is that I lost myfamily."
The Arsalanis and their one-year-old daughter
, Sahar Haju, 37, and her husband left Canada in early December to visit theirfamily in Iran. Her husband returned to Toronto from Iran about a week agoand is waiting for his wife and 8-year-old only child to return home on the8th. However, he failed to wait until Haju worked at the YMCA in Toronto,dedicated to helping immigrant and refugee women in Canada. When he heardabout Xia Zhu's death, some refugees said, "We were destroyed."
The victim of the Ukrainian crash
"I broke my heart," the Ukrainian ambassador to Canada said onTwitter. "We will have to spend this terrible pain with our Canadianbrothers and sisters." Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau also issued a statementsaying he expressed condolences and condolences to those who lost their lovedones in the tragedy.
(Original title: Details of the Ukrainian crash: All 4 Canadian families onboard, the deceased was only 1 year old)
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