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‘My soul is with them and they are gone,’ says Pati, looking at a photo of his wife and daughter who died in the Tunisia-Libya desert – Copyright AFP Mahmud Turkia
Pato looks at the picture on his phone. It shows him with his wife and daughter, all carefree smiles. “That’s the last time we were happy,” he says, completely traumatised.
A few months after the photograph was taken, his life was shattered.
A friend showed Pato, a migrant from Cameroon, a picture from the internet of two bodies huddled together on the desert sand.
It was of Pato’s wife, 30-year-old Fati Dosso, and their…
