ISLAMABAD:A vessel carrying approximately 65 passengers capsized near the port of Marsa Dela, North West of Zawiya city, Libya with the Pakistan embassy there trying to ascertain the identities of affected Pakistanis.

“Our Embassy in Tripoli has informed that a vessel carrying approximately 65 passengers capsized near the port of Marsa Dela, North West of Zawiya city, Libya,” according to a Foreign Office.

The Pakistan Embassy in Tripoli immediately dispatched a team to Zawiya Hospital to assist the local authorities in identification of the deceased. The Embassy is also trying to ascertain further details of the Pakistani affectees.

Besides, the Crisis Management Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been activated to monitor the situation.

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Earleir,  The mortal remains of four Pakistani nationals who had died in a boat capsizing incident near the Moroccan port reached here on Wednesday night.

The bodies were identified after an extensive process of verification by the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA).

A boat carrying several Pakistanis was capsized near the Moroccan port of Dhakla on January 16.