Migrants who survived the sinking of a fishing trawler near Greece that left 78 dead and hundreds missing describe conditions onboard the troubled ship.
Pakistani nationals on board a dilapidated fishing trawler thatlast week, killing at least 78 migrants, were forced below deck unlike passengers of other nationalities, survivors reportedly said.
"All the people involved in this tragedy will be brought to justice," Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan said in a statement. The country is observing a day of mourning on Monday, with flags flying at half-staff. The news organization, citing Pakistani media, also said around 300 Pakistanis are feared to have died in the sinking, while the country’s ministry of foreign affairs said only 12 Pakistanis have been counted so far among the survivors. Survivors of the shipwreck sleep at a warehouse at the port in Kalamata, about 150 miles southwest of Athens, Greece, on June 14.
"We started the journey at dawn on Friday. Around 700 of us were on board," one migrant reportedly told investigators looking into the disaster."We were traveling for three days and then the engine failed." In Greece on Monday, a court postponed a hearing for nine Egyptian men being held there over accusations of being migrant smugglers involved in the sinking of the ship.
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