HALIFAX — Seven children, all members of a Syrian refugee family, died early Tuesday in a fast-moving Halifax house fire described as Nova Scotia’s deadliest blaze in recent memory. “Our entire municipality is heartbroken and our thoughts are with the loved ones of the family,” Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said in a tweet. “It is very, very sad this has happened … for the Syrian community here and the wider community in Halifax,” she said in a telephone interview. A fundraising campaign, organized by family friends including the Imam Council of Halifax, has been launched to help the grieving parents. “They have lost all their children,” the Go Fund Me page, called Halifax House Fire Tragedy, said.

Source: National Post February 19, 2019 15:39 UTC