Islamabad: Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch Seven Pakistani nationals have drowned in a boat wreck near Libya’s port city Benghazi, the Foreign Office said Thursday.
the embassy of Pakistan in Libya was facilitating the process of identification of the bodies.
Fifty-nine people died, including some children when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks on the southern Italian coast early on Sunday.
The FO spokesperson said the bodies would be transported to Pakistan with the support of local authorities and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
She said the embassy and Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also in contact with the families of the deceased.
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