University of Waterloo remembers victims of Flight 752
Service honoured lives of UW students killed
The University of Waterloo held a memorial for victims of Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 Wednesday afternoon. Two students and one alumnus were on board.
Mansour Esnaashary Esfahani was completing a PhD in civil engineering. Marzieh (Mari) Foroutan was a PhD candidate in geography. And Dr. Neda Sadighi was at one time a student at UW's school of optometry.
The university's Federation Hall was packed with hundreds of people. After the noon-hour memorial there was a minute of silence, observed in solidarity with universities across the country to remember the victims of the crash. Many of the people killed were studying and working in academia.
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All 176 passengers and crew were killed last week, after the plane was shot down by a missile shortly after takeoff in Tehran. Of those passengers, 138 were destined for Canada and 57 were Canadian citizens.