Africa Business Radio

A Canadian court has awarded $84m to the families of six victims who were killed when Iranian forces shot down a Ukraine International Airlines flight near Tehran in early 2020. Justice Edward Belobaba of Ontario’s Superior Court had issued the ruling in a default judgement on December 31. Iranian forces shot down Flight PS752 after it took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on January 8, 2020, killing all 176 people on board, including 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents. The Iranian government blamed the incident on a human error saying that the plane was mistaken for a hostile target in a disastrous mistake.