A Tragic Story
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:26 am
Funeral for an angel
6-year-old hit by van laid to rest
By JACK BOLAND, TORONTO SUN
Before little Filsan Homeud Ali was laid to rest yesterday her grieving mother, Hodan, gave her a traditional final purifying bath and wrapped the 6-year-old in five white cotton swathes.
Outside the Jami Mosque on Boustead Ave., in the city's west end, her crestfallen father, Homeud, spoke lovingly about his talented daughter who was struck and killed by a motorist on Saturday in Scarborough.
"She was unlike any other kids her age," said Homeud, adding she overcame difficulties in speech due to autism and excelled at music and computer skills.
"Even though she was slow in speech she was very good with high-tech stuff. She was an advanced little girl," he said before her funeral that followed a midday prayer session.
"She was very playful. She liked playing the piano and keyboards," he said.
"She would teach us things we didn't even know how to do on the computer," said Homeud, who was consoled by family and friends.
On Saturday, Filsan broke free from her mother's hand and dashed into traffic on Ellesmere Rd., just east of Victoria Park Ave. and was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
"My wife keeps playing the tape over and over in her head. She is speechless," Homeud said.
She can't stop thinking about the tragedy, said Homeud, who was in Ottawa at the time of the accident doing humanitarian work.
He has no ill will towards the driver of the van who had no time to avoid striking his daughter, he said.
The Ali family's two other children, daughter, Emely, 7, and son, Hanad Ablis, 2, were in the care of Hodan's sister and not at the funeral.
6-year-old hit by van laid to rest
By JACK BOLAND, TORONTO SUN
Before little Filsan Homeud Ali was laid to rest yesterday her grieving mother, Hodan, gave her a traditional final purifying bath and wrapped the 6-year-old in five white cotton swathes.
Outside the Jami Mosque on Boustead Ave., in the city's west end, her crestfallen father, Homeud, spoke lovingly about his talented daughter who was struck and killed by a motorist on Saturday in Scarborough.
"She was unlike any other kids her age," said Homeud, adding she overcame difficulties in speech due to autism and excelled at music and computer skills.
"Even though she was slow in speech she was very good with high-tech stuff. She was an advanced little girl," he said before her funeral that followed a midday prayer session.
"She was very playful. She liked playing the piano and keyboards," he said.
"She would teach us things we didn't even know how to do on the computer," said Homeud, who was consoled by family and friends.
On Saturday, Filsan broke free from her mother's hand and dashed into traffic on Ellesmere Rd., just east of Victoria Park Ave. and was struck by an oncoming vehicle.
"My wife keeps playing the tape over and over in her head. She is speechless," Homeud said.
She can't stop thinking about the tragedy, said Homeud, who was in Ottawa at the time of the accident doing humanitarian work.
He has no ill will towards the driver of the van who had no time to avoid striking his daughter, he said.
The Ali family's two other children, daughter, Emely, 7, and son, Hanad Ablis, 2, were in the care of Hodan's sister and not at the funeral.
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