Iranian authorities stripped the bodies of plane crash victims in January of jewellery, passports and other personal belongings before returning the remains to their loved ones, three family members charged Tuesday.
The alleged “looting” of bodies was just one part of a nightmarish ordeal for relatives in the wake of Iran’s accidental shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, the Canadian-based relatives told a virtual news conference.
Iranian authorities originally claimed the plane’s demise was an accident, but under pressure admitted that air-defence forces had mistakenly fired two missiles at the Boeing 737 amid tension with the United States.
Nearly six months later, Iran has yet to turn over the two black boxes from the doomed plane to a country that has the technology to extract their data, despite having promised to do so.
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