Megan Royal expressed profound sadness and disbelief upon learning about her mother's death through a WhatsApp message, describing the pain of receiving her mother's ashes by post.
Razek Hassan al-Shalabi, Mohammad's father, sat among the town's inhabitants and relatives who came to mourn the young men at the school. "In the morning he told me he wanted to get married," he told DW. "He talked about starting a family, and now we bury him."