However, he says the deaths of hundreds of people, including Pakistani nationals, in the boat capsize incident last month frightened these would-be illegal immigrants, making them return home. On reaching home, they have started lodging complaints against the human traffickers to reclaim the amounts they had paid to the human traffickers, he adds. Earlier, on Friday, Usman Siddique, the last of the total 12 Pakistani nationals who survived the boat tragedy, returned to his home at Kaleki village near Gujrat. Siddique, a constable of Gujrat police, claimed around 20,000 illegal immigrants are waiting for their turn to travel to Italy at the safe houses of human traffickers in Libya. He says in the last four weeks around 125 cases have been registered against human traffickers in connection with the boat tragedy.

Source: Libya Today July 13, 2023 02:32 UTC