The Kearney Lake Mosque was packed with mourners Wednesday afternoon for a wake and funeral prayer for Ahmad Al Marrach, 16, who was the victim of a homicide earlier this week. As CBCs Taryn Grant reports, the teenager came to Canada from Syria eight years ago.
Young mourners at a Halifax-area mosque were invited Wednesday to gather around the casket of Ahmed Al Marrach, a 16-year-old killed this week in what police have ruled a homicide.
Those who packed the Kearney Lake Masjid listened as Imam Hamzah Mangera spoke of a high school student who had started to see positive change after struggling to settle into Canada as a Syrian refugee eight years ago.
The imam asked youth taking part in the wake and funeral prayer to reflect on Al Marrach’s death, the fragility of life and the kind of impact they hoped to make in the world.
“I just …