Imam says he was told school tragedy in Saskatoon happened in seconds
SASKATOON — An imam who was called to a Saskatoon school after a kindergarten student died says the Muslim boy’s attendant told him the tragedy happened in seconds.
Ilyas Sidyot, the imam of the Islamic Association of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, was called to Dundonald School on Monday after the five-year-old’s death and because the woman who was supervising the child was also Muslim.
She was distraught and taken to hospital in shock.
“She was, I think, really concerned,” Sidyot said Wednesday. “It is not something she could ever expect to happen. In seconds, she says this happened.”