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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the nation Thursday afternoon amid multiple reports pointing the finger at Iran for the downing of a Ukraine International Airlines flight. The crash killed all on board, including 63 Canadian citizens and 138 people who were headed to Canada.

Addressing assembled media in Ottawa, Trudeau said Canada has intelligence that indicates the plane was shot down by an Iranian missile.

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“We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence, the intelligence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. This may well have been unintentional,” he said.

When Trudeau was asked whether he was “not ruling out that this was intentional,” the prime minister said, ‘It is really too early to draw any conclusions.”

Asked if the downing could be seen as an act of war, Trudeau said: “It is too early to draw definitive conclusions like that one, that is why we need a complete and credible investigation.”