December 05, 2007	Wednesday	Ziqa'ad 24, 1428

RAWALPINDI, Dec 4: Three Pakistani illegal immigrants died while trying to enter into Greece from Turkey, official sources told Dawn here on Tuesday.

The three men died of severe cold in the last week of November at Salmas, a mountainous border town of Turkey, while trying to enter into Greece with a group of illegal immigrants, an immigration official requesting not to be named said.

The official said the men belonged to Gujranwala, but did not divulged their identities quoting a group of 58 Pakistanis, who arrived here on Tuesday on PIA’s flight PK-762 from Turkey.

They were deported by the Turkish authorities for entering the country illegally, an official of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said.

The deportees were taken into custody by the personnel of the FIA’s passport cell, who registered cases against them and shifted them to their respective towns for further investigation.

Four of the deportees were from Rawalpindi, 52 from Gujranwala district, and one each from Lahore and Faisalabad.

Meanwhile, a chartered plane carrying over 115 Pakistani illegal immigrants is expected to arrive here from New York city, US, on Wednesday morning, the sources said.