Releads with victims, provides Trudeau remark, modifications dateline
Releads with victims, provides Trudeau remark, modifications dateline
EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan 8 (Reuters) – A newlywed couple that had traveled to Iran to get married have been among the many 63 Canadians killed when their Ukrainian Airways flight crashed early Wednesday, based on a neighborhood chief within the western Canadian metropolis the place 30 victims got here from.
All 176 folks on board the Ukraine Worldwide Airways Boeing 737 have been killed when the aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran. It had been heading for the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Arash Pourzarabi, 26,and Pouneh Gourji, 25, have been graduate college students in laptop science on the College of Alberta and had gone to Iran for his or her wedding ceremony, stated Reza Akbari, president of the Iranian Heritage Society of Edmonton.
They have been on the aircraft together with 4 members of their wedding ceremony social gathering and one other 24 Iranian-Canadians from Edmonton, Akbari stated.
“Oh god, I can’t imagine this,” Akbari…