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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Helena Smith, Shah Meer Baloch, Ruth Michaelson and Emma Graham-Harrison

Pakistanis ‘were forced below deck’ on refugee boat in Greece disaster

Survivors of the shipwreck  in a warehouse  in Kalamata
Survivors of the shipwreck in a warehouse in Kalamata. Photograph: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP

Pakistani nationals appear to have been singled out on the trawler that sank off Greece last Wednesday with hundreds of passengers feared dead.

Macabre details have emerged of conditions on the boat, as questions mount over whether the Greek coastguard “covered up” its role in the tragedy. With about 500 people still feared missing, new accounts from survivors indicate that women and children were forced to travel in the hold, and that certain nationalities were condemned to the most dangerous part of the trawler.

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