Relatives of a Guinea man killed in this week’s shooting at a mosque in Canada say he was working on a project to bring drinking water to his home village at the time of his death.
Alpha Barry, an uncle of victim Mamadou Tanou Barry, says the 42-year-old accountant often sent financial and other aid to relatives in this West African nation while caring for two children of his own in Canada.
On Sunday night, he was among six people killed in the attack on the Quebec Islāmic Culture Centre. Another Guinean, Ibrahima Barry, was also among the dead.
Alpha Barry says the unfinished water project involved installing a 100-meter-deep well in his remote village outside Labe, Guinea’s second-largest city located hundreds of kilometers inland from the capital, Conakry.
