Bilal Kayani's Life

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Young man breaks the law and risks his life to be reunited with his love interest.

You might or might not have heard the story about the young man who lost his life trying to get United Kingdom from France all because of his young love.
This story is about the young man Bilal Kayani, he was 17 years old and was from Kurdistan Iraq. He he wanted to meet his girlfriend Mina, who lives in London England. But to be able to do that he had leave Iraq. But his journey of love was not easy. When Bilal left Iraq, the Turkish army had caught him, but he managed to flee and in a cold autumn night he managed to get to France and got into a truck with other refugees, but they got caught and went through inspection and later on luckily got out safe.
He

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