May 1, 2014
TORONTO :Six weeks after surviving a Taliban attack on a Kabul hotel that left his father, mother, brother and sister dead, miracle child Abuzar Ahmad arrived in Canada on Wednesday to start his life anew.
The son of a slain AFP reporter, a little Afghan boy who will soon turn three, was accompanied on a two-day voyage from Kabul to Toronto by his new guardians, cousin Turaj Rais Mohammad and his wife.
Wearing jeans and a blue cap to keep him warm and protect the scars left by a bullet wound to his head, the orphan and his new guardians arrived in Toronto late on Wednesday.
"Welcome to Toronto Abuzar," read a banner hung outside the airport by other members of his extended family, awaiting his arrival. The slight child's interim residence permit was inspected by Canadian officials and he appeared calm, after having slept for much of the more than ten-hour flight from Istanbul. AFP