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Alan Uncle Mohammed and Tima Kurdi

Alan Kurdi: Alan Uncle Mohammed, Aunt Ghousoun and their five children will soon call Vancouver home. "It will happen...they will bring them," Tima Kurdi, says from her home in Port Coquitlam, just east of Vancouver, according to Huffington Post Canada. Alan, his older brother Ghalib and their mother Rehan died as they tried to reach Europe from Syria. Now, CBC the fifth estate has learned that some of Alan Kurdi surviving family members are being fast-tracked to Canada as part of Ottawa new refugee settlement strategy. In interviews with the fifth estate, Alan Canadian aunt, Tima Kurdi, says an email from Immigration Canada on November 10 "confirms the approval" of their application. She busy preparing for the family of seven refugees to arrive. He told the fifth estate he chosen not to come here. But there are no more dreams of Canada for Alan father, Abdullah Kurdi. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.