‘I don’t want to die,’ girl tells brother before losing life to tobogganing accident in Ottawa
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Josée Abi Assal, 11, died in a sledding accident at Mooney's Bay on Dec. 27. "She asked her brother, 'Why did this happen to me?'" said mother Marie-Lou El-Kada.
The sadness in his eyes tell a story of heartbreak.
"She’d often tell us, 'I’d like to be an actress,'" said her father Joseph Abi Assal.
Josée Abi Assal, 11, was the youngest of her three siblings. She would have turned 12 in February. This would be her first Canadian winter; but on Monday, Dec. 27, it would also be her last, a tobogganing crash took her life.
Tragedy struck at Mooney’s Bay just before 3 p.m. that afternoon. Josée was with her older siblings, and her aunt and cousins who live close by. It was to be a fun family activity on a long weekend following Christmas. Josée’s parents were not there. What they know of the crash is what their children witnessed.
