Relatives bury seven members of Lebanese family killed trying to reach Greece

Ambulances carrying seven bodies of the Lebanese Safwan family drive past relatives and journalists at Beirut international airport, Lebanon October 21, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Seven members of a Lebanese family who died trying to reach Greece by boat were buried on Thursday in Beirut and survivors described watching their loved ones perish before their eyes.

Members of the Safwan family said the dead, who included a pregnant woman and two children, had left poor living conditions in Lebanon to seek a better life in Europe, like hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war in Syria.