Pakistan’s Interior Minister has promised to arrest and prosecute the human smugglers responsible
At least 350 Pakistanis were on an overloaded boat that capsized and sank in open seas off Greece last week, Pakistan’s Interior Minister said on Friday, promising to arrest and prosecute the human smugglers responsible.
Another 193 Pakistani families have taken DNA tests to try to identify those who died in one of Europe’s deadliest shipping disasters in recent years, he said. Pakistan’s economic meltdown in recent months has spurred more people to risk their lives to reach Europe in search of a better future. These human smugglers had charged around $8,000 a person to take them to Europe illegally through the sea route after flying legally to Dubai, Egypt and Libya, authorities said.
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