The bodies of around a dozen Pakistani migrants who drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea will be sent back to Pakistan, Libyan officials said. The PressTV report cited a hospital official as saying that the bodies of 12 Pakistanis who died in the incident were recovered and brought to a morgue in the capital Tripoli, awaiting repatriation.
An estimated 90 migrants drowned off the coast of Libya after a smuggler's boat capsized early on Friday last week, leaving three known survivors and 10 bodies washed up on shore, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) had said. The Foreign Office spokesman had said that those eight identified included Ikram-ul-Haque and Muammad Qasim Baigh from Mandi Bahauddin, Rehmat Khan, Muhammad Ismail, Azmat Bibi and Luqman Ali from Gujrat, Mirza Ghulam Fareed from Rawalpindi and Muhammad Aziz from Sarghdha.