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The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seyne-les-Alpes says there are now reports
that bodies are being recovered and airlifted from the site.
They
came from as far away as Australia, Iran, Morocco and Venezuela, and
their lives ended together in France's deadliest plane crash in decades.
The
victims included two babies, schoolchildren going home from an exchange
visit, a pair of acclaimed German opera singers and a member of an
Argentine rock band, three generations of the same family, a vacationing
mother and son, a recently married couple, people on business trips and
others going home.
Germanwings said 144
passengers and six crew members were on board its plane that crashed
Tuesday in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
Here are details of some of the victims:
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Sixteen high-school students and two teachers, Germany
The students and their teachers were returning from an exchange program in Spain. Their names have not been released.
The
group was from Haltern, a rural town 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast
of Duesseldorf, where it seemed everyone knew someone who had died.
The
principal of Joseph Koenig High School, Ulrich Wessel, called the loss
of his students and two teachers - one who had just married and another
who was soon to be - a "tragedy that renders one speechless."
"I
was asked yesterday how many students there are at the high school in
Haltern, and I said 1,283 without thinking. Then had to say afterward,
unfortunately, 16 fewer since yesterday," he said. "That's just
terrible."
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Maria Radner, her husband and their baby, Germany
Maria
Radner, a 34-year-old contralto from Duesseldorf, her husband and
infant son were among the victims, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu
said.
The Spanish opera house said she played the goddess Erda in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" last weekend.
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Oleg Bryjak, Germany
Bass
baritone Oleg Bryjak, had performed along with Radner in the production
of "Siegfried" at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, the opera house
said. Bryjak, 54, had sung the part of Alberich.
Bryjak
was born in Ukraine of Kazakhstani origin and had moved to Germany in
1991 where he was the soloist at the Deutsche Opera am Rhein in
Duesseldorf. Its director, Christoph Meyer, said that "we have lost a
great performer and a great person in Oleg Bryjak."
Christina
Scheppelmann, artistic director of the Liceu, said: "The mood is
ominous, like it should be in any kind of workplace facing a tragedy
like this one."
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Three members of the same family, Spain
Three
generations of one family - a schoolgirl, her mother and grandmother -
were on the plane that crashed, according to a statement from the town
hall in Sant Cugat del Valles, outside Barcelona.
The
girl was a middle school student, for children aged 10-11, at Santa
Isabel school in Sant Cugat, the statement said, without providing the
family names.
"The students are very affected.
The teachers are trying to help them any way they can," said a woman
who answered the phone at the school. She refused to give her name or
say more.
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Asmae Ouahhoud el Allaoui and her husband, Spain
Ouahhoud
el Allaoui, 23, got married on Saturday and was moving to Duesseldorf,
according to the town hall of La Llagosta in northeastern Spain, where
she was from. Her husband, an unnamed Moroccan, was also on the plane.
The town hall said another man born there, Francisco Javier Gonalons,
42, also died in the crash.
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Mireia Serrat, Spain
Serrat was export director for Spanish industrial manufacturer INOXPA, the Girona, Spain-based company said.
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Maria Luisa Romanos, Spain
Romanos was the wife of INOXPA owner Candi Granes, the company said.
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Manuel Rives, Spain
Rives
worked for the Delphi company outside Barcelona, Spain's UGT union
said. Rives was traveling with a Delphi human resources executive, the
union said in a statement without giving the executive's name. Both were
planning to attend a human resources conference.
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Carles Milla, Spain
Milla,
a married 37-year-old, was going to a food technology fair in Cologne
on behalf of Milla Masanas, a small food machinery company in the town
of Cornella de Terri, north of Barcelona, the company's managing
director said.
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Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio and her infant son Julian, Britain
Lopez-Belio
had been attending an uncle's funeral in Jaca, a small Spanish town in
the Pyrenees mountains, her husband Pawel Pracz said in a statement
issued by the Foreign Office. Lopez-Belio, editor and colorist working
in film post-production and who lived in Britain, was on the flight with
her 7-month-old son Julian.
Unable to find a
direct flight to Manchester, the chose to connect from Barcelona via
Duesseldorf. "She bought the tickets at the last moment, and decided to
return to Manchester quickly as she wanted to return to her daily
routine as soon as possible," her husband said.
---
Paul Andrew Bramley, Britain
Bramley,
28, was studying hospitality and hotel management at Ceasar Ritz
College in Lucerne. He had just finished his first year in college and
was about to start an internship on April 1.
He
had taken a few days of vacation with friends in Barcelona and was on
his way back to Britain to meet his mother, who was traveling from her
home in Majorca to see him.
"Paul was a kind, caring and loving son," his mother Carol Bramley said in a statement. "He was the best son, he was my world."
----
Martyn Matthews, Britain
Matthews,
50, was a senior quality manager from Wolverhampton. He is survived by
his wife, Sharon, and his two children, the Foreign Office said. "We are
devastated at the news of this tragic incident and request that we are
allowed to deal with this terrible news without intrusion at this
difficult time," the family said in a statement.
---
Carol and Greig Friday, Australia
Carol,
a nurse and married mother of two, celebrated her 68th birthday on the
eve of the crash, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said. She was
vacationing with her son Greig, who was due to turn 30 next month and
was planning to teach English in Europe.
Bishop read out a statement from the family in which they said they were "in deep disbelief and crippled with sadness."
The
statement said Carol "loved to travel and has seen many of the world's
greatest sights." Her son was a mechanical engineer who also loved
travel, had completed a course for teaching English as a foreign
language and planned to do so in France. The two were taking their
vacation together ahead of the son's planned work stay in Europe.
---
Yvonne and Emily Selke, United States
Yvonne
Selke of Nokesville, Virginia, worked for Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in
Washington and performed work under contract with the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's secretive satellite
mapping office, according to a person close to the family. She was
travelling with her grown daughter Emily - a 2013 graduate of Drexel
University in Philadelphia who worked for Carr Workplaces of Alexandria,
Va. The U.S. State Department said a third American citizen was also on
board the flight and that the victim's family had been notified. It did
not release the name out of respect for the family.
---
Junichi Sato, Japan
Sato,
one of two Japanese victims, was based in Duesseldorf where he worked
for Japanese machinery maker Seika Corp.'s local branch. The company
said Sato had been in Barcelona, Spain, for a business trip.
"I'm
speechless. My heart is totally broken," Sato's father Yukio said in an
interview with Nippon Television Network Corp. from Hokkaido, their
hometown in northern Japan. "I'm so proud of my son - he was working
very hard as a businessman."
---
Gabriela Lujan Maumus and Sebastian Greco, Argentina
Maumus
was 28 and played in a rock band called Asalto al Parque Zoologico, or
Assault on the Zoo Park, according to local website infobae.com. The
group released an album a few months ago and had a concert scheduled for
March 29 in Buenos Aires, according to the band's Facebook page and
Twitter account. Greco was a financial analyst, according to his
LinkedIn profile. The couple was in Europe on vacation.
---
Juan Armando Pomo, Argentina
Pomo,
51, was a businessman who for more than 20 years had lived in Asuncion,
Paraguay. He was married with two teenage children, according to
Infobae.
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Nolberto Ariza, Venezuela
Ariza, who was traveling with Pomo on the Germanwings flight, was a businessman who had lived for several years in Paraguay.
"We hoped that he hadn't taken the flight but unfortunately that was not the case," said his sister, Yusmari Ariza.
---
Eyal Baum, Israel
Baum,
39, lived in Barcelona with his wife, Baum's sister Liat told Army
Radio. "He was amazing, with a winning smile. Whoever met him fell in
love with him from the first moment," she said, in tears. "The thought
of what he went through in those moments is very difficult."
---
Luis Eduardo Medrano, Colombia
Medrano,
a 36-year-old architect, had been vacationing in Europe. His family
expected him to return to his native city of Popayan after working
several years for an engineering firm in Equatorial Guinea. Medrano's
father told local newspaper El Tiempo that shortly before takeoff he
received a brief text message from his son: "Flying to Germany."
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Maria del Pilar Tejada, Colombia
Tejada, 33, was an economist doing doctoral work at Bonn University, according to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
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Erbol Imankulov, Kazakhstan
Imankulov was director of a silicon plant in the eastern Kazakh city of Karaganda, according to state news agency Kazinform.
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Milad Hojatoleslami and Hossein Javadi, Iran
Hojatoleslami
worked for the semi-official Tasnim news agency and Javadi was a
journalist at the Vatan-e-Emrouz daily, Iran's official IRNA news agency
said, quoting the foreign ministry. The reporters were in Barcelona to
cover last Sunday's soccer match between Barcelona and Real Madrid and
planned to cover Iran's friendly games against Chile and Sweden in
Austria and Stockholm, respectively, according to IRNA.
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Daniela Ayon Razo, Mexico
Ayon
Razo, 36, was a Yoga teacher from the Gulf coast city of Tampico in
Mexico, her friend and fellow Yoga teacher Maria Andrea Meza said.
Daniela
loved to travel the world giving yoga classes. "In the end, she died
doing what she loved, she loved to travel," Meza said.
"Daniela
was a person who was super alive, full of happiness and dreams," said
Meza. "She took advantage of every moment of life to the fullest."
"She
left a lasting mark on people's lives," she said, adding she brought
what she learned in India and other places back to Mexico. "Daniela was
magic, she changed your way of seeing things, your way of thinking."
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