Families mourn young migrants who died at Belarus-Poland border
The body of a young Syrian migrant who drowned while trying to cross a river on the Belarus-Poland border was buried on Monday.
The burial of Ahmad Al Hasan, 19, took place in a cemetery run by Poland's tiny Muslim community, in the presence of a handful of witnesses. It followed a prayer in a wooden mosque in the village of Bohoniki.
Ahmad's family were able to take part remotely, via the phone of a Syrian doctor who has lived in the region for years.
The teenager had hoped to continue studies he had begun in a refugee centre in Jordan, said Kasim Shady, speaking on behalf of his family from Homs, devastated by Syria's decade-long war.
The leader of the local Muslim community, Maciej Szczesnowicz, said that Ahmad Al Hasan was "a human being...
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