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Various accidents and shipwrecks over the past weeks in the Mediterranean has seen more than 800 people perish on the open sea.
Mohammed and Iyla are 25 year old twins from Syria. They fled Syria in 2013 after their home and restaurants were bombed. They decided to pay people smugglers to send them to Europe.
"If we had stayed we would have been dead in the Middle East. You only die once in your life. We decided to risk dying trying to reach here."
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