'Last Sunday evening, four fountains of sweetness were taken away,' one relative said at the family's funeral service.
Her husband Salman Afzaal also studied at Western University, earning his master’s in health sciences in 2010. He went on to work as a physiotherapist, caring for seniors in long-term care homes.
He enjoyed cricket and was known for greeting people with"his gentle and welcoming smile," wrote Sana Yasir, a neighbor of the family, on aImtiaz Khan, who knew the family for more than decade, told a Global News Toronto reporter that Afzaal"would be the one that would help so many people in the community,"The couple's daughter Yumna was in the ninth grade at Oakridge Secondary School.
"It's a very genuine family, very honest, very friendly, very social," Khan told Global News Toronto. Speaking to the hundreds who had gathered at the service, Madiha Salman's uncle expressed gratitude for the outpouring of support from Canadians and people across the world, saying that over the last week he and other relatives have realized"that our extended family was much larger than we could have ever imagined."
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