GUJRANWALA: The stays of 4 extra Pakistanis have been recovered who died within the Greek boat tragedy final month, the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) mentioned on Wednesday.
With the whole variety of recovered our bodies rose to 9, deceased have been recognized as Shabbir, Zain Ali and Zeeshan — all three hailing from Narowal — whereas the fourth particular person has been recognized as Sialkot’s Owais Ali.
With the our bodies shifted to a hospital in Athens from the Greek island Gavdos, the company mentioned, including that the Pakistani embassy was making preparations to ship the stays to Pakistan, nevertheless, this may increasingly take one other week.
The event comes as greater than 80 Pakistanis had drowned after boats carrying them capsized close to Greece on the night time between December 13 and 14. Though, as many as 36 Pakistani residents have been rescued, the remaining nonetheless stay lacking which, as per a report from the Pakistani Embassy, ought to be presumed lifeless.
The boats, which departed from Libya’s Tobruk port additionally carried Bangladeshi, Egyptian and Sudanese nationals.
The incident warranted a robust response from the federal government with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordering ordered stern motion towards human smugglers in addition to FIA officers who have been discovered concerned in facilitating them.
Presiding over a gathering in Islamabad on the matter of human trafficking prevention on December 20, the premier instructed the authorities involved to finish the continuing probe into the human trafficking situation on the earliest and submit concrete suggestions.
With the invention of 5 extra our bodies, the variety of lacking Pakistanis stands at 40, mentioned the investigation company.
It’s pertinent to know that as per official sources, there are nonetheless over 5,000 Pakistanis in Libya who’re able to journey to Europe whereas being accompanied by a number of Libyan and Pakistani brokers. The sources mentioned they obtained visas from Pakistan and arrived in Libya legally.