A student at a San Diego university was among those killed in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which Iranian officials announced Saturday had been accidentally shot down by the Iranian military.
January 11, 2020, 3:26 PMCatch up on the developing stories making headlines.A student at a San Diego university was among those killed in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which Iranian officials announced Saturday had beenSara Saadat, a student at Alliant International University, was on her way back to San Diego when the Boeing 737 crashed after takeoff from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, school officials announced in a statement.
A woman mourns outside the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, Alberta, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, during a vigil for those killed after a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed, killing at least 63 Canadians, just minutes after taking off from Iran's capital. Saadat was traveling aboard Flight 752 with her mother, OB-GYN Dr. Shekoufeh Choupannejad, and her sister Saba, according to the Associated Press. The three were among the estimated 57 Iranian-Canadians on the flight, many of them professionals and academics from Western Canada.The Saadat sisters were among 10 passengers who were members of the close-knit community at Western Canada's University of Alberta, university officials said.
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