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This story, from Australia, is absolutely heartbreaking and almost defies
belief.
Kaylene Mann's brother Rod Burrows and sister-in-law Mary Burrows were on
board MH370 when it vanished in March.
Her stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was on MH17
In an almost incomprehensible twist of fate, an Australian woman who lost
her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 learned on
Friday that her stepdaughter was on the plane shot down over Ukraine.
Kaylene Mann's brother Rod Burrows and sister-in-law Mary Burrows were on
board Flight 370 when it vanished in March.
On Friday, Mrs Mann found out that her stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was killed
along with 297 others on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which US intelligence
authorities believe was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
"It's just brought everyone, everything back," said Greg Burrows, Mann's
brother. "It's just ripped our guts again."
Mr Burrows said his family was struggling to understand how they could be
struck by such horrible luck on two separate occasions with the same airline.
"She just lost a brother and now a stepdaughter, so..." he said of his
sister, his voice trailing off.
Mrs Rizk and her husband Albert, of Melbourne, were returning home from a
four-week holiday in Europe, said Phil Lithgow, president of the Sunbury
Football Club, with which the family was heavily involved. Albert, a real
estate agent, was a member of the club's committee, Maree was a volunteer in
the canteen and their son, James, plays on the club's team.
"They were very lovely people," Mr Lithgow said. "You wouldn't hear a bad
word about them - very generous with their time in the community, very
community-minded, and just really very entertaining people to be with."
The club members planned to wear black armbands and observe a minute of
silence to honor the Rizks at their game on Saturday, Mr Lithgow said.
Despite the twin tragedies, Mr Burrows said he holds nothing against
Malaysia Airlines.
"Nobody could predict they were going to get shot down," he said. "That was
out of their hands." |
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