ISLAMABAD: The identification means of 13 our bodies recovered from the Morocco boat tragedy has been accomplished, ARY Information reported citing diplomatic sources.
In response to diplomatic sources, the method confirmed that the 13 deceased people have been of Pakistani origin.
On January 15, stories emerged that 44 Pakistanis had misplaced their lives within the boat accident. Nevertheless, native authorities have been solely in a position to get better 13 our bodies, which have been unidentifiable and lacked documentation.
To facilitate the identification course of, the providers of the Nationwide Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) have been employed. Fingerprints and pictures of the deceased have been despatched to NADRA for verification functions.
Following NADRA’s affirmation, lists of the recognized people have been compiled. The following step might be to provoke the method of repatriating the our bodies of the 13 Pakistani nationals to their homeland.
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Earlier, seven Pakistani survivors of the Morocco boat tragedy have been repatriated to the nation.
The survivors included Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Abbas, Mudassar Hussain, Imran Iqbal, Uzair Basharat, Shoaib Zafar and Aamir Ali, who hail from varied cities of Gujarat, Hafizabad, Sialkot, Mandi Bahauddin and Gujranwala.
Federal Investigation Company’s Immigration cell took all of the people into custody at Islamabad Airport and transferred them to the circle for questioning, the place an investigation officer recorded their statements.
The people whereas narrating their ordeal, confirmed that human traffickers brutally tortured them. Additionally they supplied particulars concerning the traffickers and brokers concerned in sending them overseas, main the FIA to increase its investigation.
In response to survivors, as many as 21 Pakistani nationals have been allowed to go away within the boat after they paid the ransom to the human traffickers.
The Pakistani nationals alleged that a lot of the victims misplaced their lives resulting from extreme chilly and torture whereas the boat additionally lacked enough shares of meals provides and ingesting water.
Sources mentioned that the boat was operated by the worldwide human trafficking racket which incorporates traffickers from Senegal, Mauritania and Morocco.