Families collect DNA samples in effort to identify the victims of the Greece shipwreck: These are some of the migrants who remain missing following the deadly tragedy
Raja Tariq holds up a picture of his son Raja Awais on his cell phone. The young man from Pakistan-administered Kashmir remains missing after a shipwreck off the Greek coast last week [Nasir Mehmood/AP]
Also missing is Ali Reza, 28, who had tried to make it to Europe with the help from human smugglers, to find a better job.Raja Sakundar, of Bindian village in Kotli, said his four nephews aged 18 to 36 also remain missing. The figure of 209 is based on information provided by families who came forward to say a relative of theirs had boarded the boat heading from Libya towards Greece and were still missing, the Federal Investigation Agency said.Pakistani police, meanwhile, arrested 10 more suspected traffickers, bringing the number of traffickers detained in the nationwide crackdown to 17, she said.
Officials said that some of the detained smugglers allegedly confessed they took money from people who were on the vessel that went down.
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