Greece boat tragedy: At least 209 Pakistanis were on board, data suggests.

22-06-2023
Flavia Gkioka
TEAM Pakistan
Global Human Rights Defence.

(Up to 500 people are still missing from a migrant boat that sank off Greece, the UN human rights office says. Large numbers of women and children were among those missing in the "horrific tragedy" that left 78 people dead. Keeping up with the updates that we have about the Pakistani refuges that travelled with that boat: Based on information provided by families who came forward there were at least 209 Pakistani ‘victims’ on the boat  heading from Libya towards Greece that are still missing. The official death toll from the accident still stands at 82 and the number of survivors at 104, of whom 12 were Pakistanis. In order to identify the bodies, authorities in Pakistan have started collecting DNA samples from the victim families. Pakistan authorities arrested 10 alleged human traffickers’ days after dozens of migrants drowned off the coast of Greece, officials said. Pakistan is yet to officially confirm how many of its citizens were on the boat, but the DNA sampling effort will help Greece identify those who died. The data shared by the FIA showed that 181 people were from Pakistan and 28 from Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Officials gathered the DNA samples from 201 families).

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