The toll from Sunday’s shipwreck rose to 65 on Tuesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
were laid out on Tuesday in a local sports hall, five of them small and white, containing the bodies of the youngest children that died.
The toll from Sunday’s shipwreck rose to 65 on Tuesday after another body was found, local officials reported. Three men – two Pakistanis and a Turkish national – have been detained for alleged people smuggling over the incident, a police spokesman told AFP.Bodies, shoes and debris have been washing up along the shoreline for the past three days.
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