Hundreds of people, including from Pakistan, are thought to have died in the incident. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Pakistani government has ordered a high-level inquiry to investigate the human trafficking network thought to be involved, a statement from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office said.Police official Riaz Mughal said that at least 21 of those who died came from the Kotli district in Pakistan’s part of the Himalayan Kashmir region.that sent these people to Europe,” senior regional police officer Tahir Mahmood Qureshi told Reuters.
A senior official at Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency said that a further four people were arrested in the eastern Punjab province. Witness accounts suggest that between 400 and 750 people were packed on to the fishing boat that sank about 80km from the southern Greek town of Pylos. The Greek authorities have said 104 survivors and 78 bodies of the dead were brought ashore in the immediate aftermath.Most of the people on board the capsized boat were from Egypt, Syria and Pakistan, Greek government officials have said. REUTERS
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