Western intelligence officials believe that a passenger aircraft that crashed in Iran killing 176 people was mistakenly brought down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.
Donald Trump, US president, yesterday said he feared something “very terrible” had happened to the Kyiv-bound Ukrainian aircraft, after multiple media reports that it had been struck by a missile. The aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran on Wednesday, hours after Iran launched missiles at American forces in neighbouring Iraq.
Speaking from the White House, Mr Trump said: “It is a tragic thing. Somebody could have made a mistake, the other side could have made a mistake.”