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Spot the children: Are all migrant kids, really “children”? (pics)

The Daily Mail profiled three "children" of the migrant crisis - real kids or bogus?

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Under Swedish human rightws rules child migrants are fast-tracked through the asylum process and receive immediate housing and cash hand-outs. Three-quarters win permission to settle so it is hard to tell of older people are taking lies to take advantage of the liberal system.

Saad Alsaud, aged 14, dwarfed other Swedish schoolboys and girls as he took part in a run. He claims to be 14 years of age but appears to be a young adult, some say a ‘father’ to the kids he is running with.

Claimed to be 14: Saad Alsaud is reported to have been the fastest 14-year-old in Sweden, dwarfing boys and girls in a running event

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Ahmad Farid, claimed he was 16 years of age when he arrived at a refugee reception center, but appears to be much older with hair on his chin and a man’s physique under his shirt. Here he is holding a teddy bear at the reception center where he arrived.

Claimed to be 16: Ahmad Farid, who claimed he was 16 but appears at least 18 or more in the snap in which he is laughing as he’s given a fluffy toy polar bear at a refugee reception centre

Somalian teen Youssaf Khaliif Nuur, claims to be 15 years of age though he is 6ft tall. An unconfirmed source says he has a beard and moustache. He is the “teen” responsible for stabbing a young psychology graduate to death at a migrant’s hostel for young orphan migrants in Sweden on Monday.

Claimed to be 15: Youssaf Khaliif Nuur who claims he is 15 though he is 6ft tall and, according to one unconfirmed source, shaves his beard and moustache

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