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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shah Meer Baloch in Khuiratta

Grief-stricken Pakistani town mourns sons lost in Greek shipwreck

Touqeer Pervez, pictured holding his niece.
Touqeer Pervez, pictured with his niece, was on board the ship and is still missing. Photograph: Shah Meer Baloch/The Guardian

The last time Mohammed Yousaf talked to his son, Sajid Yousaf, on 8 June, the son was waiting anxiously in Libya for smugglers to pack him and hundreds of others on to a boat bound for the other side of the Mediterranean.

Six days later, the overcrowded fishing trawler sank off the coast of Greece. Sajid, 28, a shopkeeper and father of two from the small town of Khuiratta in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, is among the hundreds missing, presumed dead.

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