Bodies of seven Pakistanis who died in shipwreck arrive

By News Desk
March 08, 2023
A photograph taken on February 28, 2023 shows the coffins of the migrants who died two days day before, after their boat sank off Italy´s southern Calabria region, at the Crotone Palasport. — AFP
A photograph taken on February 28, 2023 shows the coffins of the migrants who died two days day before, after their boat sank off Italy´s southern Calabria region, at the Crotone Palasport. — AFP

LAHORE: The bodies of seven Pakistanis who drowned after a shipwreck near Italy reached Lahore on Tuesday.

The Pakistani authorities made arrangements for the repatriation. The bodies, including of a woman football player from Balochistan, reached Lahore via Tunis and Jeddah, by a Saudi Airlines flight. The bodies were then shifted to Gujrat.

A sailboat, carrying 180 to 200 migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia and several other countries to Europe, crashed into rocks amid stormy weather near Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Calabria.

Later, in another incident, seven Pakistanis lost their lives in a migrant ship sinking near Libya the same day.