The Canadian Press

: The phone in the couple Coquitlam, B.C., home rang hours later to deliver the grim news: Kurdi sister-in-law and her two little boys were dead, drowning as they tried to reach Europe after paying smugglers with the money Kurdi had personally sent to the family from Canada, according to The Chronicle Herald. The dead boy on the beach was her three-year-old nephew, Alan. Their hearts sank. The harrowing photo has since become a heartbreaking symbol of the plight of Syrian refugees. The love of my life is gone and nobody in the world can bring them back, Tima told The Canadian Press, sobbing into her hands as she sat on her living-room couch on Thursday. Kurdi, who came from Syria to Canada more than two decades ago, says she’d hoped to bring her brothers and their families here to escape the horrors of a vicious regime. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.