Out in the open sea, Bohyda faced death every single day and scared, seasick and lacking an appetite she would wet her lips with the little water she had.

The 50-year old woman from Gaza arrived safely from Egypt on Thursday but her daughter, 22, and fiancé were not allowed to move in with the rest of the family at the Ħal Far open centre.

Rocking on a small chair, squeezing one hand in the other, Bohyda admitted she felt devastated that she had been separated from her daughter.

The former project engineer left for Egypt with seven relatives and then fled the North African country in the hope she would join her relatives in Sweden.

Bohyda is one of the 258 migrants rescued by a cargo ship on Thursday after leaving Egypt on a boat days before.

Read more in Times of Malta.

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