Fourteen suspects arrested in Pakistan over Greece boat disaster

A handout photo of the overcrowded fishing boat before it capsized with hundreds on board. [HELLENIC COAST GUARD / HANDOUT VIA REUTERS]

Pakistani authorities have arrested 14 people in connection with the alleged trafficking of several migrants who drowned last week after their overloaded boat capsized in the sea off Greece, police said.

Hundreds of people, including from Pakistan, are thought to have died when the vessel capsized and sank in one of Europe's deadliest shipping disasters in recent years.

The Pakistani government has ordered a high-level inquiry to investigate the human trafficking network thought to be involved, a statement from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's office said.

"My thoughts and prayers are with the bereaved families who lost their loved ones," Sharif added.

At least 21 of those who died came from the Kotli district in Pakistan's part of the Himalayan Kashmir region, police official Riaz Mughal said. Two of the 12 Pakistanis who survived the sinking also came...

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