A family is reeling after losing four
family members; two in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and
two in the shooting down of flight MH17.
The Independent reports: An Australian family has been hit by both
Malaysia Airlines tragedies, having now lost four members in flight MH370′s disappearance and flight MH17′s shooting 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.
And on Friday, Mann found out that her
stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was killed along with 298 others on Malaysia Airlines
Flight 17. Rizk and her husband Albert were travelling home from a holiday in
Europe when the plane was shot down.
“It’s just brought everyone, everything back,”
said Greg Burrows, brother to Kaylene and Rodney. “It’s just … ripped our guts
again.”
He 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.
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.
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