TORONTO — The remains of seven Canadians who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash have been returned to the country, more than seven months after the disaster. Mohamad Ali, of Toronto, says he flew to Ethiopia last week to bring his sister and niece home. He says his relatives’ remains were returned to Canada on Tuesday morning on a flight with the remains of five other Canadians. The plane was flying to Kenya from Addis Ababa on March 10 when it went down, killing all 157 people on board including 18 Canadians. Ali said Tuesday that the repatriation of his relatives’ remains is an important part of the healing process for his family, and he plans to bury Amina Odowa and her daughter Sophia Abdulkadir beside each other in Edmonton on Friday.

Source: Ethiopian News October 22, 2019 19:41 UTC