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The tragic story of the Syrian refugee who lost his wife and daughters in Beirut blast

In the Beirut port explosion on the 4th of August, Ahmed Abu Altaf lost his wife and two daughters. Six years earlier, he and his family had fled Syria in search of a better life in Lebanon.
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