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At least eight Ottawa residents have been identified among the 176 people who died on a Ukraine International Airlines flight that crashed in Iran.

Crash victims include Kanata high-tech entrepreneur Alireza Pey, 48, who was returning to Ottawa after a trip to visit his ailing father.

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Fereshteh Maleki Dizaje, 41, an architect, was returning after celebrating her daughter’s wedding in Tehran.

Roja Azadian, 43, said goodbye to her husband, Mohsen Ahmadipour, at the airport in Tehran. He had to book another flight because his ticket was no longer valid. The couple had planned to return to Ottawa together.

Fareed Arasteh, 32, a PhD student in biology at Carleton University, had just married his longtime girlfriend in Tehran on Sunday.

Mansour Pourjam, 53, was a Carleton biology graduate who became a dental technologist.

Three University of Ottawa students also died in the crash: Mehraban Badiei was a first-year student in health sciences; Alma Oladi was a PhD student in the university’s math department; Saeed Kashani was a PhD student in the chemistry and biomolecular department.