A Toronto woman says she’s devastated after seven members of her family were killed in the massive earthquake that hit parts of Syria and Turkey earlier this week.
TORONTO - Aya Hammoud has been struggling to cope after seven members of her family were killed in the earthquake that has devastated parts of Syria and Turkey.
Hammoud said rescue teams recovered the bodies of her grandfather and his wife on Wednesday, and the bodies of her cousins – all children – and their mother were pulled from the rubble on Thursday. “My aunt kept telling me like how bad it is,” Hammoud said. “She called it the end of the world. It’s a catastrophe.”
Abdulfatah Sabouni, who lives in Calgary with his wife and four children after the family arrived as Syrian refugees in 2016, was on a business trip in the Turkish city of Gaziantep when the quake hit while he was asleep in his hotel. Leaving the city has been difficult, he said, because people are crowding in the airport and transit hubs in an effort to flee.
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