Members of the Ethiopian red cross search for remains at the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash before a commemoration ceremony at the scene of the crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner ReutersTORONTO (Reuters) - Three generations of a Canadian family were among the 157 people who perished when Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 crashed on Sunday, a relative confirmed on Wednesday. Prerit Dixit, 43, and Kosha Vaidya, 37, their daughters and Ashka Dixit, 14, and Anushka Dixit, 13, and Vaidya's parents Pannagesh Vaidya, 73, and Hansini Vaidya, 67, were among the 18 Canadians killed. "This is terrible and tragic," Manant Vaidya, brother of Kosha Vaidya, told Reuters. Manant Vaidya works for the Reuters parent company Thomson Reuters.

Source: Ethiopian News March 13, 2019 20:26 UTC