Two Canadians killed in Kabul shooting spree

One of them was 57-yr old Canadian-Afghani Zeenab Kassam  from Calgary. 

From CalgaryHerald:
....Four men with pistols stuffed   in their socks attacked a luxury hotel in Kabul on Thursday, opening fire in a restaurant and killing nine people, including four foreigners, officials said.

The attack came just hours after militants killed 11 people in an audacious assault on a police station in eastern Afghanistan.

Afghan authorities initially said only two security guards had been wounded in the brazen assault on the Serena hotel in Kabul. Deputy Interior Minister Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi later told The Associated Press that the Afghan fatalities included two men, two women and one child while the foreigners included two women and two men....

....When Karim-Aly Kassam got   the phone call that no one ever wants to get, he had to find the facts for himself.

The professor of environmental and indigenous studies at Cornell University had been told there was a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, and that his sister, 57-year-old Zeenab Kassam of Calgary, was among the victims.

With research teams on the ground in Afghanistan, the professor called on his contacts to find out what had happened, hoping they would tell him there’d been some mistake.....