The overloaded wooden boat broke up and sank early Sunday in stormy seas off Italy’s southern coast, with bodies, shoes and debris washing up along a long stretch of shoreline.
“One Afghan 12-year-old boy lost his entire family, all nine of them — four siblings, his parents and other very close relatives,” he told journalists. The Save the Children charity said on Twitter it was supporting survivors from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria, including 10 minors who had been travelling with their families.The charity said survivors described how “during the night, near the coast, they heard a loud boom, the boat broke and they all fell into the water.”
A Pakistani official tasked with fighting human trafficking told AFP that the number of people trying to leave Pakistan was growing because “of the deterioration in the economic situation and lack work.” “When you see the little, lifeless bodies of children, those images pierce your heart,” Morabito said.The disaster has further fuelled the debate in Italy over search and rescue measures for saving migrants who run into trouble on the Central Mediterranean route, which is the world’s deadliest.She said Sunday the government was “committed to preventing departures and, with them, this type of tragedy”, while her interior minister Matteo Paintedosi simply said “they must not set sail”.
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