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"The minute we arrived at the boat the captain realised we would not make it. He shouted: 'Take us back!
You are sending us to our death!'"

Hamida, 32, recounts the last minutes before the boat, carrying more than 150 migrants, sank in the
Mediterranean.

"Captain Usama was threatened with a gun," she says. "Youssef, the brother of the main smuggler Bilal Dieb,
pulled a gun and said: 'We will start with your kids if you don't get on the boat!'"

On a dark night in September, some 300 to 400 people were

cramped into a one-story building in a fenced-off farmyard near
Tripoli, in the north of Lebanon, close to the Syrian border. They
had all paid smugglers thousands of dollars to board a boat to
take them to Europe. Within two days, more than 100 of them
would be dead.

Hamida Misto, her husband, their three children, and her deaf
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They were confident about the journey as a group before them

had made it to Italy. Abu Firas, the broker who kept Hamida's money, had showed them photos of the vessel
that would carry them across the sea. It had looked new and in good shape.

The smugglers called out people's names and took them on a truck to the shore, where they were put on
small fishing boats that would take them from the beach to the larger vessel.

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