FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a news conference about flight PS752 from Tehran to Kiev that crashed shortly after takeoff, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Blair Gable
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has intelligence from multiple sources indicating a Ukrainian airliner that crashed on Wednesday near Tehran was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday.
U.S. officials had earlier said the airliner was most likely brought down accidentally by Iranian air defences. All 176 people on board, including 63 Canadians, were killed.
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