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A look at some of the 39 people killed in the Istanbul attack

A look at what is known so far about the victims of the Istanbul nightclub attack that left at least 39 dead and dozens more injured on New Year's Day.

Victims include citizens of 16 different countries, including Canada

Flowers and a Turkish flag have been placed near the entrance of Reina nightclub in Istanbul, where a gunman opened fire early New Year's Day, killing at least 39 people. (Yagiz Karahan/Reuters)

At least 39 people were killed and 69 othersinjured in the mass shooting in front of and inside a popular Istanbul nightclub in the first hours of New Year's Day.

The victims includecitizens of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, France, Tunisia, India, Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, Canada, Israel, Syria, Belgium, Germany and Russia.

A police officer and a security guard employed to keep revellers safe, a tour guide escorting visitors during a night on the town, and young adults who had travelled to Turkey for the holidays are some of those who have been identified.

Here's a look at what is known so far about thevictims:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office confirmedthat aCanadian died in the attack. It's believed the victim was an Iraqi-Canadian woman.

Mehmet Kerim Akyil, 23, had travelled from Belgium to Istanbul for a New Year'svacation. His father, Ali Akyil, told state-run Anadolu news agency that they were a Turkish family who loved their country.

Bulent Sirvan Osman, 38, a married father of two from Erbil, Iraq, was in Istanbul for business, according to Anadolu.

A former employee of the Reina nightclub reacts outside following the attack. (Huseyin Aldemir/Reuters)

Abdullah Ahmed Abbolos, a 32-year-old Palestinian living in Saudi Arabia, had come to Istanbul to celebrate the new year, Anadolu reported.

Abis Rizvi,from Mumbai, was one of two Indian victims. The 49-year-old builder wrote, produced and directed the 2014Bollywood movieRoar: The Tigers of Sunderbans, aimed at spreading awareness about tigers.

The other Indian victim isKhushi Shah, a fashion designer from Vadodara, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

Hatice Karcilar, a 29-year-old private security guard, was among the Turkish victims of the attack, Anadolu reported. She is survived by her husband and a three-year-old daughter, it said.

Relatives attend the funeral Monday of Busra Kose. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)

Turkish police officer Burak Yildiz was shot and killed outside the Reina nightclub, Anadolu reported. The 22-year-old from the southern city of Mersin had been on the force for 1years.

Ayhan Arik, a 47-year-old Turkish travel agent and a father of two, was shot in the head outside the club, reported the private Dogan news agency.

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry identified three of its citizens among the dead as Elias Wardini, Rita Shami and Haikal Musalam. The wounded included Bushra El Douaihy, the daughter of parliament member Estephan El Douaihy, it said.

Leanne Nasser, an 18-year-old Arab-Israeli from the town of Tira, was celebrating with friends when the gunman broke in and opened fire. Ruaa Mansour, also 18, was moderately wounded in the attack. Two other friends were unharmed.

The U.S. State Department confirmed that a 35-year-old Delaware businessman originally from Chadds Ford, Penn., was wounded. William Jacob Raak told the Dogan news agency that he was in the club with nine people, seven of whom were shot. Raak suffered a leg wound.

France's foreign minister says one French citizen was killed and three others wounded.Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement that a woman with both French and Tunisian citizenship died. The woman's Tunisian husband also died, he said.

The coffin of Yunus Gormek, 23, is carried during his funeral on Monday in Istanbul. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

Dubai-based broadcaster Al Arabiya reported that seven people from Saudi Arabia were killed and 10 were wounded.

Two people from Bavaria are among the dead, according to Germany's Foreign Ministry. Spokesman Martin Schaefer declined to name them, but said it appeared one was a German-Turkish dual citizen and the other was believed to have had only Turkish nationality. As well, three German citizens were wounded, he said.

Jordan's Foreign Ministry said two of its citizens were killed and six were wounded.

Funerals were held Monday in Istanbul for three of the Turkish victims: Fatih Cakmak, a security guard at the club, Busra Kose and Yunus Gormek. Cakmak had survived a suicide bombing targeting police at a football stadiumjust three weeks earlier.

With files from CBC News