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Amir Arsalani’s Facebook page Wednesday featured a photo of Evin gazing lovingly at her daughter. “I miss you baby sister,” were the only words accompanying the picture.

“At this point I don’t care how it happened, all I care is that I lost my family members,” the other brother, Omid Arsalani, told the CBC Wednesday.

Rod Phillips, Ontario’s finance minister and the MPP for Ajax, said on Twitter he was “saddened” by the family’s deaths and offered his deepest condolences..

Mo described the couple as exceptionally kind and caring, Evin having helped his own wife get a job at CIBC, where the dead woman worked as a business analyst.

“I cannot say anything other than how nice they were,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything bad from them.”

Molani was, like Mo, an HVAC technician.

Photo by Evin Arsalani/Facebook

Both husband and wife were naturalized Canadians originally from Iran. Arsalani, 30, had immigrated first with her brothers and parents and was back for a visit to Iran when she met Molani, 38, and then married him in 2012, said Mo.

Their daughter was born about a year and a half ago.

They traveled to Iran last month to attend the wedding of Molani’s brother. Arsalani’s parents were in the country as well, as they usually spend part of the winter in Iran, said Mo.

To be honest, every time somebody goes back there, they’re kind of waiting for something to happen

He tried to reach his friend Molani in Ajax Tuesday, not sure which day this week they were returning.

“I called him to see if he was back or not, without knowing the situation,” said Mo. “They said they were coming back soon. I called to say ‘How is everything?’ ”