Last month, the community of London, Ontario was ripped apart by a horrific targeted attack: three generations of the same family were destroyed when they were run over. Those killed in the terrorist attack are remembered kindly by their family, friends and neighbours. Their names were Salman Afzaal (46), his wife Madiha Salman (44), their daughter Yumna (15) and Yumna's paternal grandmother, Talat (74). They are survived by their son, grandson and brother Fayez (9), who was hospitalized after the attack.
Madiha was pursuing a doctorate in engineering at the time of her death. "She was a spectacular student, teammate and engineer," said Professor Jason Gerhard of Western University Canada. "She was unbelievably brave and determined, she wasn't going to let anything get in her way." According to Dalia Faheid at npr.org, Madiha graduated from a university in Pakistan with a bachelor's degree in engineering, where she was one of only two women in her class. In Gerhard's core research group, Madiha worked on removing toxic industrial chemicals from water and the ground. Her innovation, named STAR or Self-sustaining Treatment for Active Remediation, is currently in use. Yasir, their neighbour, remembers the family bringing her plates of food when her mother was going through chemotherapy
Salman was a physiotherapist working at the Ritz Lutheran Villa nursing home. In his spare time, Salman loved the outdoors - he was a gardener and a cricket and table-tennis player. One 85-year-old nursing home resident always looked forward to Salman's visit because he would talk about basketball. Jeff Renaud, the administrator at the nursing home, remembers Salman as kind, caring and humble.
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