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Pakistanis mourn hundreds feared dead in Greece boat tragedy

Moniza has no news of her son Ajmeer, a father of one who boarded the boat in Libya days before it sunk off the coast of Greece. © FRANCE 24 screengrab

Pakistan observed a national day of mourning on Monday for the victims of last week's shipwreck off the coast of Greece, in which hundreds of Pakistani nationals are feared to have died. FRANCE 24’s Shahzaib Wahlah and Sonia Ghezali spoke to grief-stricken families whose loved ones were on board the ship.

Local media say more than 200 Pakistani nationals were among an estimated 750 people on board the fishing trawler heading for Europe when the vessel sank on Wednesday, June 14, off the Peloponnese peninsula.

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