“Looking back, I realise that the risk I took was not worth it,” Butt told AFP. Butt is one of several men from Khuiratta who told AFP the disaster prompted them to give up on the journey after reaching Libya. “They were brutal people.”While he was in jail, news reached his hometown of the migrant boat sinking off Greece, causing heartbreak and distress. “I can’t explain the pain and anguish I went through for a week,” Butt’s wife Mehwish Matloob told AFP. “I believed that life in Europe would be more vibrant and colourful compared to my experience in Saudi Arabia,” the 29-year-old told AFP.

Source: Libya Today July 26, 2023 10:17 UTC