[Rudaw] In search of a better life in Europe, Mawda’s father took his family on a difficult journey, but lost his two-year-old daughter to police gunfire in Belgium.
UK paper The Guardian reported that Belgian police believed the van was being driven by smugglers bringing migrants colonists to the coast where they would be smuggled into trucks for a trip into the UK.
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On the night of May 16, Belgian police opened fire on a vehicle carrying refugees near the city of Mons, killing Mawda Shamdin Ali, whose family is from the Kurdistan Region.
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