Old Montreal fire: family remembers Walid Belkahla

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Old Montreal fire: family remembers Walid Belkahla

“We were waiting with hope that he was not among the victims,“ said Rabah Belkahla of his 18-year-old son Walid who died in the Old Montreal fire on March 16. Farah Mustapha reports.

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