An unthinkable loss stops us cold – and then shocks us with love | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Tue, 04/02/2020 - 5:25pm

In their grief, the parents of the killed children have shown the generosity of the human heart

At the fiery end of an Australian summer marred with fear, anxiety, and terrible human and property loss came the happening too dreadful to conceive of.

Children in deep Australian suburbia walking for ice cream on a sweltering Saturday evening. A car plows into them, killing four and injuring three others, one seriously. The dead are the Abdallah siblings – Sienna, 8, Angelina, 12, and Antony, 13 – and their cousin Veronique Sakr, 11.