New reports emanating from Ukraine indicate that Iranian, Canadian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Afghanistan, British and German nationals were killed in the Ukrainian plane crash that occured just outside Tehran on Tuesday night.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadim Prystaiko said after Wednesday’s crash that there were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians on board. The Ukrainian nationals included two passengers and nine crew members.
He says there were also 10 Swedish nationals, four Afghans, three Germans and three British nationals.
Video footage tweeted by the BBC’s Iran correspondent, Ali Hashem, shows the plane already burning in the sky before it crashed sparking fears that the jet could have been shot down accidentally by nervous Iranian airforce pilots.
#Breaking First footage of the Ukrainian airplane while on fire falling near #Tehran pic.twitter.com/kGxnBb7f1q
— Ali Hashem علي هاشم (@alihashem_tv) January 8, 2020
