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Western intelligence agencies see no indication crashed plane was shot down: Canadian source
8 January 2020 19:52 GMT
According to an initial assessment of Western intelligence agencies, the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran early on Wednesday was not brought down by a missile, a Canadian security source said.
The incident took place hours after Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles on military bases in Iraq hosting US-coalition forces.
The source, according to Reuters, the agencies believed the Boeing 737 plane had suffered a technical malfunction. The source declined to be identified.
The Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.
