Relief and new baby for asylum family of child suffocated in Channel crossing

Andrew HardingReporting from Rouvroy, northern France

BBC Ahmed with his wife, Nour and teenage daughter, Rahaf. They are all happy and focused on a sleeping newborn baby, being held by Ahmed and wrapped in a cream coloured blanket.   BBC

First came an email. Then, a month later, a baby.

Each arrival, in its own way, marked a sharp swerve in the fortunes of a grief-bludgeoned Iraqi family that has spent the past 15 years…

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