Roja Omidbakhsh was one of at least 14 people with ties to B.C. who died when UIA Flight 752 was shot down in Iran. She's being remembered as a sharp student, and a supportive friend.
This is part of a series on the B.C. victims of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which crashed near Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 people on board.
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