The bodies of four Pakistanis who drowned in the capsizing of a migrant boat off West Africa last month have been repatriated. Their remains were brought home overnight and later buried in Punjab province. The boat set off from Mauritania with 80 passengers, and the Foreign Ministry said it capsized en route to the Canary Islands.
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Walking Borders had said 50 people on the boat died on their way to the Canary Islands and 44 of them were Pakistanis. Pakistan has already repatriated Mohammad Adnan said his family had agreed to paid 5 million rupees to a local human smuggler for sending his brother, Mohammad Arslan, to Europe and 4 million rupees were paid in advance. The rest was yet to be paid when they heard news about the capsizing, and later some of the survivors said the migrants were thrown into the sea.
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