Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned against speculations on the probable causes of a crashed Boeing-type airline owned by Ukraine International Airlines.

The UIA said there was no immediate indication that foul play may have caused the plane to go down soon after take-off.

Bereaved friends and families have joined in mourning after the Ukrainian airliner crashed near Tehran killing all 176 on board, as heartbreaking details started emerging about the victims, most of them from Iran and Canada.



According to Ukraine, 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans and three Britons were on board, as well as 11 Ukrainians — including nine crew.

At least 25 of the passengers were under the age of 18, the UIA said.

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Search-and-rescue teams combed through the smoking wreckage of the Boeing 737 flight to Kiev, but officials said there was no hope of finding survivors.

Body bags were lined up on the ground, and the passengers’ personal items including luggage, clothes, a Santa Claus doll and a boxing glove were scattered in the debris.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered his “sincere condolences” to the bereaved families.

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The head of Iran’s civil aviation organisation, Ali Abedzadeh, said Iran would cooperate with Ukraine, but not send the black boxes to the US, with which it has no diplomatic relations.

Without naming Iran directly, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement calling for “complete cooperation with any investigation into the cause of the crash.”

According to aviation experts, only a handful of countries are capable of analysing black boxes — notably Britain, France, Germany and the United States.

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