*First Published on CNN By Sophia Saifi, Immad Uddin and Rhea Mogul, CNN Bandali, Pakistan-administered KashmirCNN — An air of melancholy engulfs the small village of Bandali in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where hopes are fading fast for nearly two dozen residents who went abroad in search of a better life and have since disappeared. Families fight back tears as they yearn to hear what…
Authorities in Pakistan say at least 124 Pakistanis were on a boat that sank off Greece with hundreds feared drowned. By Abid Hussain *First Published on Al Jazeera Islamabad, Pakistan – Two of Abid Kashmiri’s family members were on board the refugee-filled vessel that capsized off the coast of Greece last week. A cousin, Imran Nazir, and nephew, Abdul Islam, travelled…
The former colonial powers are feeding the very causes of regional, social and economic instability that create these refugee flows *First Published on Middle East Eye by David Hearst rotesque though it may seem, what happened last week when anything up to 500 men women and children drowned off the coast of Pylos in Greece was just another day…
*First Published on InfoMigrants Information for relatives and friends of missing persons The fishing boat that left Tobruk, Libya on June 10 and sank off Pylos in southern Greece on June 14 is thought to have been carrying between 400 and 800 people. As of Wednesday (June 21), the bodies of 82 deceased persons had been recovered…
In the early hours of the morning of June 14, the captain of an oil tanker received a call to help save the trawler that sank 30 miles off the coast of Greece. The sea had swallowed everything up. Navigational data show contradictions in Greece’s official account of events *First Published on El Pais By MARÍA MARTÍN,…
Men’s remains recovered in open water on sixth day of search since boat carrying up to 750 people sank *Originally Published on The Guardian Greek authorities have retrieved a further three bodies in open waters near the spot where a fishing trawler packed with Europe-bound migrants sank last week. The bodies – all men – were recovered…
*First Published on Refugees Platform in Egypt (RPE) The Refugees Platform in Egypt (RPE) is working on fact-checking information and reconstructing the story and events in the tragedy of the capsizing of a boat carrying migrants off the Greek coast. The RPE publishes the second report in the series “Capsizing of a Boat off the Greek Coast,…
*reposted from The ConversationThe Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy has been described as the “world’s most dangerous maritime crossing”. This was proven once again last week in the tragic shipwreck of a boat full of men, women and children, around 50 miles away from the southern Greek town of Pylos. The boat was being tracked by the Hellenic…
*First Published on InfoMigrants Questions continue to mount over what happened to the migrant ship that sank off Greece in the early hours of last Wednesday. Some of the most recent evidence suggests inaccuracies in the Greek coast guard’s account. More than five days after a migrant ship reportedly carrying hundreds of migrants sank off the coast of…
Suspected people smugglers to appear in court in Kalamata, as police in Kashmir announce 10 arrests *First Published on the Guardian Nine suspected people smugglers are to appear before a Greek court accused of piloting the fishing trawler that sank off the coast of Greece last week leaving hundreds missing and presumed dead in one of the Mediterranean’s worst…
