Peel District School Board said teen girls Ashka and Anushka Dixit were travelling on the doomed Ethiopian Airlines jetliner with their parents and grandparents
Six members of an Ontario family, including two teenage sisters, were among the 18 Canadians killed in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
“I miss them a lot,” he said. “I don’t really believe this has happened. I’m still in the shock phase.” He said his brother-in-law worked as a medical lab assistant for LifeLabs and also held a job at Ontario’s Ministry of Health. His sister used to work for the Canadian Hearing Society, he said. One of those humanitarian workers killed in the crash was Jessica Hyba, an external relations officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees who was based in Somalia at the time of her death.Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University, first met Hyba as their careers were getting underway at CARE Canada in 2001.
“This tragedy has struck the humanitarian community hard and our thoughts are with all of those who have lost friends and colleagues,” the group said in a statement. “We are reminded of the sacrifices humanitarian workers and their families have made through this work in an effort to save lives and help people overcome poverty.”
Davies said after graduating from Dalhousie, Moore returned to Manitoba where she worked for several non-governmental organizations, including the Canada Learning Code, a group dedicated to improving the accessibility of educational and technological resources for Canadians. “Goodbye old friend,” Coon wrote while offering condolences to deMarsh’s wife and son. “You gave so much of your self in service to the common good.”
“Micah is one of the most energetic, enthusiastic, smartest, driven,” she said in an interview. “He is so accomplished.” Ethiopian officials said Monday that the black box from the downed plane had been recovered, though it was partially damaged.
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