DUBAI, April 6 (Reuters) - Iran has indicted 10 off
DUBAI, April 6 (Reuters) – Iran has indicted 10 officers over the shooting-down of a Ukrainian passenger aircraft in January 2020 that killed all 176 folks on board, a navy prosecutor mentioned on Tuesday.
In a report printed final month, Iran’s civil aviation physique blamed the crash on a misaligned radar and an error by an air defence operator. Ukraine and Canada, house to lots of those that died, criticised the report as inadequate.
“Indictments have been issued for 10 officers concerned within the crash of the Ukrainian aircraft… and essential selections shall be taken in courtroom,” Gholam Abbas Torki, the outgoing navy prosecutor for Tehran province, was quoted as saying by the semi-official information company ISNA. He didn’t give additional particulars.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shot down the Ukraine Worldwide Airways flight on Jan. 8, 2020, shortly after it took off from a Tehran Airport.
The Iranian authorities later mentioned the shooting-down was a “disastrous mistake” by its forces at a time once they have been on excessive alert in a regional confrontation with the USA.
Iran was on edge about potential assaults after it fired missiles at Iraqi bases housing U.S. forces in retaliation for the killing days earlier than of its strongest navy commander, Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. missile strike at Baghdad airport.
(Reporting by Dubai newsroom Enhancing by Gareth Jones)
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