How Fatma Moustafa and her family fled Syria

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Fatma Moustafa, her husband and their three very young children were fleeing Syria, hoping to reach Europe. They and nearly fifty others took a small dinghy, which started to sink in the Mediterranean. In desperation, she called her brother Khaled, who lives in the Swedish capital Stockholm. The only clue to her whereabouts was the signal from her mobile phone, which the rescue services managed to track. Fatma describes the moment that she made that call and Khaled tells us what he did next.