Over 24 Pakistanis Drowned In Italy Migrant Boat Wreck: PM Shehbaz Sharif

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday stated over dozen Pakistanis have been believed to be amongst fifty nine individuals who drowned while a ship wearing migrants to Europe crashed in opposition to rocks close to the southern Italian coast. At least eighty one humans survived Sunday`s accident, with 20 hospitalised inclusive of one character in in depth care, Italian government stated.

The wood boat, which sailed from Turkey, is stated to have carried humans from Iran and Afghanistan as well. “The reviews of the drowning of over dozen Pakistanis in a ship tragedy in Italy are deeply regarding and worrisome,” Sharif stated in a statement, adding, “I even have directed the overseas workplace to check information as early as viable and take the state into confidence.”

Turkey is a part of one of the most-used routes for human smugglers to smuggle migrants into Europe, who at instances journey through road, stroll for miles and undergo being locked in deliver bins for days.

Italy is one the primary touchdown factors for migrants looking to input Europe through sea, with many looking for to journey directly to northern European nations.

The United Nations Missing Migrants Project has registered extra than 17,000 deaths and disappearances withinside the critical Mediterranean due to the fact 2014. More than 220 have died or disappeared this year, it estimates.