LAHORE: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday arrested a human trafficker from Gujranwala involved in the Libyan boat tragedy.
The accused was arrested in Gujranwala and allegedly involved in the Libyan boat incident. He was absconding after the registration of the case.
FIA officials said that the accused had taken 7.1 million to send more than 5 youths to Italy. The persons whom the accused had sent had died in a boat accident.
Earlier, an accident happened to the boat of illegal immigrants from the African country of Mauritania to Spain, as a result of which 50 migrants, including 44 Pakistanis, died.
According to the news agency, the boat with 86 migrants left Mauritania on January 2.
Moroccan authorities said that 66 Pakistanis were on board the boat, 36 people have been rescued in the boat accident.
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