A father whose wife and seven kids drowned while fleeing ISIS and Syria's civil war warned others in his position against making similar attempts to reach Europe, NBC News reported.
"I had the most affectionate wife," Ali Alsaho told BBC News in a piece broadcast Thursday. "I took my family out of Syria to escape the killing. Now I have lost my family, my world."
His oldest child was nine, the littlest was just 20 days old, Alsaho said. Only some of the bodies were recovered after waves capsized the boat they were in soon after it left the Turkish coast on its way to Greece.
"Don't take this risk, don't go by sea — you will lose your children," Alsaho advised to other refugees during his interview with the BBC from the port city of Cesme, Turkey. "The smugglers are traitors."
