Nearly two months after a dilapidated fishing trawler crammed with people heading from Libya to Italy sank in the central Mediterranean, killing hundreds, relatives are still frantically searching for their loved ones among the missing and the dead.
, and spends hours on his phone, making calls and watching and re-watching videos of survivors on social media.
But all injured survivors have long since been released from hospital, and the nine survivors arrested as suspected smugglers are all Egyptians. Abdulrahman Diab’s name is not among them.clings desperately to the hope that somehow, somewhere, Abdulrahman is out there, still breathing, still alive.In Athens, the members of the Disaster Victim Identification Team continue the slow process of piecing together the identities of the bodies.
An international mass-casualty event “requires a good investigative procedure that is time-consuming, with persistence and patience, to be able to collect information on missing people,” said Themelis. “This is fundamental. Who really were the people who might have been on the ship?”
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