How a ship carrying hundreds of migrants sunk in the first place comes with a tragic explanation. With 750 passengers on board, it’s a surprise how poorly the boat and the immigrants were handled. The 750 migrants onboard were reportedly accompanied by a few smugglers.
One of the passengers was Matloob Hussain. He was 42 when he left on the boat. He had traveled to Europe before. On that boat, he had covered his eyes the whole time because he was so terrified of the water. The smugglers promised Matloob that they would use a “good boat.”
After the boat left with 750 migrants, only 104 survivors arrived at the intended destination, a port in Greece. 82 bodies were recovered, while countless others were sucked into the sea. While over half of the original passengers were Pakistani, only around 11% of the survivors were Pakistani. Many of the Pakistani passengers were stuck on lower levels of the boat as it sank.
Why would the passengers be willing to go onto a boat that was run by smugglers? The smugglers had armed themselves—Matloob said that the smugglers had “guns and knives.”
After the news of the sunken ship got out, it was devastating for many of the passenger’s families. In fact, many of the people who left on that boat were trying to help their families—trying to get the bare minimum to survive. Matloob’s brother, Adiil Hussain, said that Matloob’s daughter was asking for her father. Hussain told her he was in the hospital. Hussain said he didn’t know how to break it to his brother’s daughter that Matloob was gone.
Contrastingly, a submarine carrying a billionaire and a couple of businessmen mysteriously disappeared on June 18th, 2023. This was happening around the same time as the aforementioned Mediterranean incident. The submarine disappearance prompted a rescue mission for the passengers— the U.S. Coast Guard was immediately searching for the passengers on board. Canadian authorities were providing help to the Coast Guard search. It was a disappearance that caused headlines around the world. There was no such search for, or attention called to, the missing migrants.
One of the passengers was Matloob Hussain. He was 42 when he left on the boat. He had traveled to Europe before. On that boat, he had covered his eyes the whole time because he was so terrified of the water. The smugglers promised Matloob that they would use a “good boat.”
After the boat left with 750 migrants, only 104 survivors arrived at the intended destination, a port in Greece. 82 bodies were recovered, while countless others were sucked into the sea. While over half of the original passengers were Pakistani, only around 11% of the survivors were Pakistani. Many of the Pakistani passengers were stuck on lower levels of the boat as it sank.
Why would the passengers be willing to go onto a boat that was run by smugglers? The smugglers had armed themselves—Matloob said that the smugglers had “guns and knives.”
After the news of the sunken ship got out, it was devastating for many of the passenger’s families. In fact, many of the people who left on that boat were trying to help their families—trying to get the bare minimum to survive. Matloob’s brother, Adiil Hussain, said that Matloob’s daughter was asking for her father. Hussain told her he was in the hospital. Hussain said he didn’t know how to break it to his brother’s daughter that Matloob was gone.
Contrastingly, a submarine carrying a billionaire and a couple of businessmen mysteriously disappeared on June 18th, 2023. This was happening around the same time as the aforementioned Mediterranean incident. The submarine disappearance prompted a rescue mission for the passengers— the U.S. Coast Guard was immediately searching for the passengers on board. Canadian authorities were providing help to the Coast Guard search. It was a disappearance that caused headlines around the world. There was no such search for, or attention called to, the missing migrants.
