(19 Jun 2023)
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Malakasa, Greece - 19 June 2023
1. Various of relatives and other people at turnstiles speaking with survivors inside camp about missing passengers
2. Wide of Sohaib Asghar speaking with reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sohaib Asghar, 28, Pakistani man living in Italy who came to find his cousin:
"And now, coming here from Bologna, we have managed to catch those guys who survived. There are 12 Pakistani boys and we showed them the photo of our cousin to see if he was one of them, and unfortunately they confirmed to us that he was on this boat."
4. Relatives and other people speaking with survivors inside camp about missing passengers
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sohaib Asghar, 28, Pakistani man living in Italy who came to find his cousin:
"The problem now is that we must identify him. The people who conducted the rescue operation recovered 90 corpses, and now we have to see with the photos if we can recognize one of these people as our cousin, so we can take him back to our country."
6. Asghar and others near turnstiles
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sohaib Asghar, 28, Pakistani man living in Italy who came to find his cousin:
"And the problem is now that they have requested this DNA test. It takes ten days to do it. Anywhere in the world it takes a week, but unfortunately in our country it takes us ten days."
8. Greek flag; tilts down to show turnstiles at camp entrance
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sohaib Asghar, 28, Pakistani man living in Italy who came to find his cousin:
"My only request is that they can come up with a way of recognizing these people as soon as possible, perhaps by comparing with the photos while we are here for another three days. If the state helps us, we can identify many people, and we can solve the problem of many people like me who are waiting, who have arrived from Italy and Spain and England, and are still waiting to see if they can recognize their relatives."
10. People seen inside camp behind fence
11. Wide of fence
12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sohaib Asghar, 28, Pakistani man living in Italy who came to find his cousin:
"The last thing, they tell us that they can't do it with the photo, but it would be good if at least they try, then if there are people you just can't recognize with the photo, they ask for DNA. But at least they should give it a try. Maybe one of these people is in decent condition and with the photo it will be easy to recognize."
13. Various of relatives and other people at turnstiles speaking with survivors inside camp about missing passengers
STORYLINE:
Relatives of passengers on board a fishing trawler that sank last week killing at least 80 people arrived at a migrant holding center in Malakasa, north of the capital, Athens, on Monday trying to track down family members.
A total of 104 people were rescued when the boat capsized and sank in international waters off the coast of Greece last Wednesday.
A search and rescue operation continues, but there are slim chances of anyone being found alive.
Estimates have put the number of people packed on the dilapidated fishing trawler at around 700-750.
Sohaib Asghar, 28, a Pakistani man living in Italy, came looking for his cousin.
He said other survivors told him his cousin was on the boat but he did not survive.
"The problem now is that we must identify him," Asghar said.
"The people who conducted the rescue operation recovered 90 corpses, and now we have to see with the photos if we can recognize one of these people as our cousin, so we can take him back to our country," he added.
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