‘I’m dying to see them:’ Toronto man who lost family in plane shot down by Iranian forces
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Habib Haghjoo cannot look at the only two photographs in his living room at his east Toronto home. But he cannot bring himself to take them down.
Habib Haghjoo cannot look at the only two photographs in his living room at his east Toronto home. But he cannot bring himself to take them down.
Nothing else hangs on the walls in that room of his impeccably clean home.
The photographs show his daughter, Saharnaz Haghjoo, 37, and his eight-year-old granddaughter, Elsa Jadidi, smiling broadly as they embrace.
The pair were aboard a Ukrainian International Airlines flight that was shot down by Iranian forces two years ago, on Jan. 8, 2020. More than 100 of the 176 people killed in the crash had ties to Canada.
Habib Haghjoo says he feels stuck in time, hoping he can have just one more minute with his girls, as he calls them.
“I’m dying to see them,” he says, tears falling from his eyes as he grips an empty cup of tea. “If I look at the picture, or bring any memory to my mind, it starts to hurt deep.”
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The 65-year-old cannot watch videos of them or leaf through old pictures, saying to do so would hurt too much.
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