'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
The family crept across farmland under night's cover, heading for the border, when Syrian troops opened fire. Bullets whizzed around them as they broke into a mad dash, survivors say. The 6-year-old boy, holding his mother's hand, broke away and ran ahead. He nearly made it into Jordan when he fell dead, a bullet in his neck.
But then Bilal "slipped from his mother's hand" and went ahead and was shot just yards (meters) from the border ditch, he said.
