Mira Akram Al Jawabreh and Noor Al Jawabreh

younger siblings: Mira Akram Al Jawabreh, her parents and three younger siblings were among some 500 refugees aboard a boat that capsized off the coast of Italy in August 2014, according to The Waterloo Record. Relatives were initially told all six had drowned but a mysterious photograph of a dark-haired girl that emerged on a Syrian news website days later stirred hope that Mira had survived. But Noor Al Jawabreh, a Syrian refugee living Kitchener, says she holds out hope her niece is alive and will leave no stone unturned until the girl is found. That hope faltered last Friday, when Noor Al Jawabreh says she spoke to a man in Denmark who told her the girl in the photo was his daughter, not Mira. Wracked by guilt over Mira disappearance, Al Jawabreh said she wants nothing more than to give the girl a new life with her family in Canada. Still, Al Jawabreh says she will keep searching for her niece until more conclusive information surfaces. "In my heart, I feel she is alive," she said in Arabic through an interpreter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.