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Bullied and shot at in Egypt, Mahmoud begins a new life in Sweden. The epic journey of a 9-year-old refugee from Syria – Part 2
Mahmoud makes a snow angel outside his new school in Torsby, Sweden.
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Mahmoud and his family are refugees from Aleppo, Syria. Initially they fled to Egypt, but young Mahmoud was bullied, beaten and detained there as public sentiment towards Syrian refugees soured.
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In December 2013, the family learned that they had been accepted for resettlement to Europe. The following month, they travelled to the small town of Torsby, Sweden, where they are making a new beginning.
"I have travelled twice before in my life, but the last two times we travelled we were escaping," said Mahmoud. "And this time I am going to live a new life."
Watch the first part of Mahmoud's remarkable story: A Child Adrift
