Seven Syrian children were killed when flames tore through family's home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, early Tuesday, according to reports.The incident has been described as the deadliest house fire in Nova Scotia in recent history.
The children, who ranged in age from 3 months old to 14 years old, had moved with their parents, Ebraheim and Kawthar Barho, to Canada in September 2017 and moved into their home over the summer, the CBC reports. The Hants East Assisting Refugees Team (HEART) had sponsored the family in the move from Syria.
The names and ages of the children are:
- Abdullah, 3 months old
- Rana, 2
- Hala, 3
- Ola, 8
- Mohamad, 9
- Rola, 12
- Ahmed, 14
According to Global News, a man with life-threatening injuries and a woman with non-life-threatening injuries were hospitalized following the fire, but their names were not given. A GoFundMe page has been set up to collect for money for the family, and funeral arrangements are being set up at the mosque the family attended.
"I heard a huge bang, and I was laying in bed with my daughter, followed by a woman screaming, so I jumped up out of bed and looked out the back window and all I could see was flames shooting out from the back door going out onto their deck," Danielle Burt, a neighbor of the Barhos, told the CBC.
"They were just over at our house yesterday. It's just something out of a horror movie that you just never would wish on anybody," she added.
