Nigerian migrant SA’EED ABUBAKAR met Darrin Zammit Lupi on a search and rescue ship on the open seas last week. This is his story.
An eruption of gunfire one evening in a small village in Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria, changed the life of 27-year-old Sa’eed Abubakar forever.
It was 2013 and amid a deafening confusion of gunshots, explosions, burning wood and blood-curdling screams, he frantically made his way to the house he shared with his elderly parents.
Mr Abubakar was shocked to find them dead in a pool of blood and a house that was rapidly burning to cinders.
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