TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The European insuring firms should pay compensation for the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed in Iran's air space in January, an Iranian insurance official announced on Monday.
"The Ukrainian plane is insured by European companies in Ukraine and not by Iranian companies," said Chief of Iran's Central Insurance Organization Gholamreza Soleimani.
"Therefore, the compensation should be paid by those European companies," Soleimani was quoted as saying by Tehran Times daily.
The Ukrainian passenger plane was hit by Iranian missiles after taking off in Tehran's air space on Jan. 8, killing all 176 people on board. Iran said that its forces "accidentally" shot the plane down.
On July 24, an international team in Paris completed the preliminary investigative analysis of the data extracted from the black boxes of the plane.
Iran's Minister of Transport and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami said on Sunday that the final report on the Ukrainian plane crash will be published soon. Enditem
