CANADIAN VICTIM ID’d

Toronto man, 72, among 18 Canadians who died in Ethiopian crash,

A 72-year-old Toronto man was identified Wednesday as one of the Canadian victims of the plane crash in Ethiopia.

The Ismaili Centre said Ameen Noormohamed was on board the Ethiopian Airlines plane that went down on Sunday following takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people aboard.

“We understand that members of the deceased’s family have made their way to Kenya and are in the midst of making arrangements,” the centre said in a statement.

Noormohamed, who lived in the Toronto area, was one of 18 Canadians killed in the crash.

The youngest was a ninemonth-old girl — the only Canadian citizen in her family — who was travelling with her mother, grandmother and two older siblings to meet her grandfather in Kenya for the first time.

A Brampton, Ont., family was also mourning six of its members who had been on their way to enjoy a safari in Kenya. Two teen sisters — Anushka Dixit, 13, and Ashka, 14 — their mother, Kosha Vaidya, 37, and father, Prerit Dixit, 45, were killed. The girls’ grandparents were also killed in the crash.

A Hamilton-area family was mourning a teacher who had a passion for volunteering. Cody French said his mother, Dawn Tanner, was en route to visit friends in Kenya.

A number of other victims had been travelling to a United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi when their Ethiopian Airlines flight went down.

Micah Messent, Danielle Moore and Angela Rehhorn and Darcy Belanger were all slated to attend the conference through various humanitarian or conservation organizations.

Other victims included Stéphanie Lacroix, who was working with the UN in Canada, and career aid worker Jessica Hyba, who was employed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Forestry advocate Peter deMarsh of New Brunswick, Carleton University professor Pius Adesanmi, Calgary accountant Derick Lwugi, and Amina Ibrahim Odowaa and her five-year-old Sofia Faisal Abdulkadir of from Edmonton were also killed.