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Shukri

Shukri Alassouli's wife and two children were among some 450 people who drowned in a fishing boat rammed by people smugglers last month in the Mediterranean Ocean.

A ‘mass murder in the Mediterranean’ leaves nearly 450 lost at sea, including this man’s family

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Shukri Alassouli, a 33-year-old man from Gaza, was trying to find a better life for his young family in Europe. But their journey across the Mediterranean in smugglers’ boats turned into what the UN called the deadliest accident of its kind, killing hundreds and losing Shukri’s wife, daughter and young son at sea.