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Nils Adler

In Poland, a Syrian fights for life after falling off border wall

Mohammad lies in a hospital in eastern Poland [Courtesy: Mohammad's family]

A Syrian national is fighting for his life in a Polish hospital, having fallen from a border wall in his attempt to flee Belarus and find safety elsewhere in Europe.

Mohammad, who is now in a medically induced coma in Białystok, eastern Poland, was injured and hospitalised on April 7 after tumbling off the five-metre (16-foot) high, 186km (115-mile) long wall erected last year by Polish authorities.

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