ISLAMABAD, Jan 03 (TNS): The Foreign Office (FO) on Saturday said that 16 Pakistanis died in the boat sinking incident off the Libyan coast while the bodies of 12 have been recovered.
Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal shared on Twitter the names and details of the Pakistanis who were on the capsized boat.
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Eight bodies were recovered and identified while four were recovered but only identified by the deceased persons’ friends and their identification documents were yet to be found, Faisal wrote.
He further stated that documents of six individuals were found but bodies have yet to be recovered.
“The Pakistani Embassy [is] working around the clock,” the FO spokesperson assured in a tweet.
The International Organization for Migration believes the incident did not take place due to inclement weather as the sea was calm.
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“We know that the weather was calm, so that’s indicating that the smugglers – who are cavalier to say the least – have hugely overloaded this vessel,” Al Jazeera quoted IOM’s Leonard Doyle as saying. “We need to get the word out to people, desperate people around the world, who think they are coming to a better life and they are reading about it on social media, that it’s not the case.”
The people whose bodies have been recovered belonged to Mandi Bahauddin, Gujrat, Rawalpindi and Sargodha areas of Punjab in Pakistan. Previously, a number of similar cases have occurred in which people — mostly from the mentioned areas of Punjab, have lost their lives en route to illegally sneaking into another country.
In November 2017, over a dozen bodies were found in Turbat, Balochistan from where people, mainly from different areas of Punjab, were trying to illegally cross the border into Iran so as to reach Europe from there for better employment opportunities.
