the two young men were 28 years old and were last seen in Calais on Oct 7, 2014
Mouaz Al Balkhi left Damascus in Feb 2014, then through Amman, Turkey, Libya and Italy reached Calais. His body was found on Texel beach (The Netherlands) on Oct 27 2014
Shadi Omar Kataf lived in Yarmouk until he left Syria in 2012, then through Libya and Italy (Aug 28, 2014) reached Calais. His body was found on Lista beach (Norway) on Jan 2, 2015
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Anders Fjellberg: Two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. Here are their stories
When two bodies wearing identical wetsuits washed ashore in Norway and the Netherlands, journalist Anders Fjellberg and photographer Tomm Christiansen started a search to answer the question: who were these people? What they found and reported in Norway’s “Dagbladet” is that everybody has a name, everybody has a story and everybody is someone.