Adds remark by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
Adds remark by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau
DUBAI, April 6 (Reuters) – Iran has indicted 10 officers over the shooting-down of a Ukrainian passenger airplane in January 2020 that killed all 176 folks on board, a army prosecutor stated on Tuesday.
In a report revealed 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, dwelling to a lot of those that died, criticised the report as inadequate.
“Indictments have been issued for 10 officers concerned within the crash of the Ukrainian airplane…and needed choices will probably be taken in court docket,” Gholam Abbas Torki, the outgoing army prosecutor for Tehran province, was quoted as saying by the semi-official information company ISNA. He didn’t elaborate.
In Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated he was “tremendously involved concerning the lack of accountability” from Iran concerning the catastrophe.
Canada, together with its companions, will proceed to press Tehran to ship justice and compensation for households of the victims, he informed a briefing when requested concerning the indictments.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shot down the Ukraine Worldwide Airways flight on Jan. 8, 2020, shortly after it took off from Tehran Airport.
The Iranian authorities later stated the shooting-down was a “disastrous mistake” by its forces at a time after they have been on excessive alert in a regional confrontation with america.
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 army commander, Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. missile strike at Baghdad airport.
(Reporting by Dubai newsroom and David Ljunggren in Ottawa Enhancing by Gareth Jones and Mark Heinrich)
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