{"id":885350,"date":"2026-09-09T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885350\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:30:14","slug":"melbourne-mosque-community-mourns-children-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885350\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne mosque community mourns children killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A community is mourning the deaths of 11-year-old Ossama El Hawli and seven-year-old Sarah El Hawli in a single-vehicle crash west of Melbourne yesterday.<\/p>\n

The Australian Islamic Centre said the two children, who are relatives, were “beloved young members of our community”.<\/p>\n

“Their loss has deeply affected our entire AIC community,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

“Our hearts are with their parents, family and loved ones as they face an unimaginable loss.”<\/p>\n

Al Iman College in Melton South told the ABC it was focused on supporting the children’s families at this time.<\/p>\n

A funeral notice for the pair states their burials will be held tomorrow.<\/p>\n

“The El Hawli family with heavy hearts and profound sadness announced the passing of their beloved Ossama El Hawli and Sarah El Hawli,” the notice said.<\/p>\n

Horror crash just after school pick-up<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to Nerowie and Parwan-Exford roads just before 4:30pm yesterday, where a 4WD had rolled over.<\/p>\n

Police said the eight-seater vehicle, driven by a mother who had just picked up children from school, inexplicably rolled.<\/p>\n

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The single-vehicle crash happened at Parwan, west of Melbourne. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

A fleet of ambulance crews attended the scene, including two Air Ambulance Victoria helicopter crews, two Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance (MICA) paramedic crews and seven Advanced Life Support (ALS) paramedic crews.<\/p>\n

Paramedics worked to treat Sarah El Hawli, but she died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Ossama El Hawli was flown to the Royal Children’s Hospital with critical injuries, but died in hospital overnight.<\/p>\n

Five other children, including a toddler, three primary-aged children and a teenager, were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

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Ossama El Hawli was airlifted to hospital with critical injuries and later died. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The Royal Children’s Hospital said today all five children were in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

A 34-year-old woman was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital for observation.<\/p>\n

Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives are investigating the circumstances behind the fatal crash.<\/p>\n

Anyone who witnessed the crash or has CCTV or dashcam footage, or information, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit an online report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A community is mourning the deaths of 11-year-old Ossama El Hawli and seven-year-old Sarah El Hawli in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28222,64,63,1154,1300,455150,11224,144010,44,9493],"class_list":["post-885350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-accident","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-el-hawli","tag-fatal","tag-landcruiser","tag-news","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}