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Fleeing Islamic State killings in Syria, a family reaches Bavaria

Vienna: "Is this really our train? Is this the train to Germany?!" Maha screams with delight.

It is Monday evening in Vienna's central train station and the 25-year-old Arabic teacher, carrying her one-year old son in her arms, can't quite believe that her family's harrowing journey from Syria may soon be over.

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