80 Afghan Citizens Killed In Italy Boat Tragedy

Afghanistan`s Taliban-led overseas ministry stated on Tuesday that eighty Afghan residents, together with children, had died in Sunday’s shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy. Rescuers have to this point showed as a minimum sixty four humans have been killed after a sailboat sank in heavy seas close to Steccato di Cutro, a beach motel at the jap coast of Calabria. Eighty humans have been rescued and extra humans have been believed to be missing.

“With outstanding sadness, we learned … that eighty Afghan refugees, together with ladies and children, who have been traveling from Turkiye to Italy in a timber boat, drowned and died withinside the southern sea of Italy,” the Afghan overseas affairs ministry stated in a assertion.

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan prays for forgiveness for the martyrs and endurance for the households and household of the victims, urging all residents another time to keep away from going to overseas nations via abnormal migration,” the assertion added, relating to the Taliban’s call for its government.

The boat had set sail from the port of Izmir in western Turkey. The UN refugee organisation has stated nearly 1/2 of of arrivals through sea among Turkey and Italy ultimate 12 months have been Afghans.