The Foreign Office (FO) confirmed on Thursday that seven Pakistani nationals drowned in a boat wreck near Libya’s port city of Benghazi.
Addressing a weekly press briefing, FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the embassy of Pakistan in Libya was facilitating the process of identification of the bodies.
She said the bodies would be transported back to Pakistan with the support of local authorities and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Baloch added that the Pakistan embassy and Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also in contact with the families of the deceased persons.
In a similar incident last month, a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and several other countries crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast.
The vessel had set sail from Turkiye several days ago and crashed in stormy weather near Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on the eastern coast of Calabria, with bodies, shoes, and debris washing up along a long stretch of shoreline.
Earlier this week, the FO spokesperson said that two Pakistanis had died in the tragic incident, one more was found alive while the status of the fourth was unaccounted for.__Dawn.com
