Europe Dreams Shattered: 44 Pakistanis Drown
The organization Walking Borders, which works for the rights of migrants, has said that at least 50 migrants have drowned while trying to reach Spain by boat from West Africa,
The 44 people who died are from Pakistan. According to foreign media, Moroccan authorities have confirmed that 36 people have been rescued from a boat that left Mauritania on January 2 and had 86 migrants on board, including 66 Pakistanis.
The human rights organization says that it informed the authorities of all countries about the missing boat 6 days ago.
Alarm Phone, a non-governmental organization that provides an emergency phone line for migrants lost at sea, says that it alerted Spain’s maritime rescue service on January 12.
The service says that it has no knowledge of the boat. Citing a post by Walking Borders on social media platform X, Canary Islands regional leader Fernando Clavejo expressed his condolences to the victims and urged Spain and Europe to take steps to prevent further such tragedies. He wrote that “the Pacific Ocean should not become the graveyard of Africa,
measures should be taken for this,” Helena Maleno, CEO of Walking Borders, told X that 44 of those who drowned were from Pakistan. He said that these people kept calling for help for 13 days
But no one came to save them. Meanwhile, heartbreaking details have emerged regarding the accident of a boat carrying foreign migrants going from Mauritania to Madrid, Spain, in which it has been said that most of these Pakistani youths were killed by human traffickers in the Moroccan seas
While some people died of hunger and thirst. According to media reports, a boat carrying foreign migrants, most of whom were Pakistanis, remained in the Moroccan seas for 8 days, and during this time, human traffickers demanded more money from the families of the Pakistani youths.
According to the report, human traffickers sent a boat from Mauritania to Spain on January 2, which was taken to Moroccan borders, and the human traffickers stopped it and contacted the families of those on board and demanded money.
According to the media, the illegal immigrants from Pakistan contacted their families to send money and asked the human traffickers for more time, after which there was contact between the human traffickers and the families of the Pakistani youth for 8 days to arrange more money.
According to the report, 44 people died in the incident, out of which 12 youths belong to Gujrat district of Punjab province of Pakistan. Most of the survivors also belong to Gujrat district.
According to the report, the most heartbreaking thing is that according to the survivors, some people have been killed by the human traffickers while the rest have died of hunger and thirst.
The smugglers have also contacted the families of the Pakistani immigrants through facilitators, on which the Federal Investigation Agency has not yet issued a statement.
