ROME: Nawal Soufi is never without her mobile phone and thousands of Syrian refugees have reason to be grateful for that.
It was an early morning in the summer of 2013 when the fragile-seeming Sicilian 27-year-old took the first panicked call: hundreds of Syrians were lost in the Mediterranean aboard a boat taking on water.
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