Vigil to be held at Mel Lastman Square tonight to honour victims of Iran plane crash
"Members of the community are planning to hold of vigil at Mel Lastman Square tonight from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in memory of those who tragically lost their lives"
Some of the Canadian victims in a deadly plane crash in Iran are shown.
Darya Toghian, 22, was among those killed in the plane crash in Iran. Toghian was flying back for her second semester at George Brown College after spending the holidays in Iran. (Saghar Hojjatzadeh)
Mojtaba Abbasnezhad was pursuing a PhD in engineering at the University of Toronto.
Sadaf Hajiaghavand was a human resources student at York University. She was visiting her family in Iran.
"While the
identities of all the victims killed in the crash have not yet been confirmed, school board officials said Wednesday that two high school students, Maya Zibaie, a Grade 10 student at Northern Secondary School, and 18-year-old Arad Zarei, a student at Richmond Green Secondary School in Richmond Hill, were passengers on the plane.
Sophie Emami, a senior kindergarten student at Lillian Public School, Arsam Niazi, a Grade 6 student at Pleasant Public School, Arnica Niazi, a Grade 3 student at Finch Public School, and Rahmtin Ahmadi, a Grade 4 student at Muirhead Public School, were also on board the plane, the Toronto District School Board confirmed Thursday.
Six students at the University of Toronto, identified as Mojtaba Abbasnezhad, Mohammad Asadi Lari, Zeynab Asadi Lari, Mohammad Amin Beiruti, Mohammad Amin Jebelli, and Mohammad Saleheh, were killed.
Twenty-two-year-old Darya Toghian, a student at George Brown College, and Sadaf Hajiaghavand, a human resources student at York University, are confirmed to be among the dead".
