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GUJRANWALA, Aug 16: An FIA team is leaving for Turkey next week to identify those Pakistanis who died or injured in a container while on way to Greece from Turkey. These people were on way to Europe via Iran and Turkey using illegal immigration channels. FIA (Gujranwala) Additional Director Hussain Asghar, who will head the team, said 145 people were in the container. Of them 12 died from suffocation while the remaining fell unconscious and were presently being under treatment in Turkey.
Meanwhile, bodies of three youth were handed over to their families here on Saturday.
Sufyan of Daska, Khurram Shahzad of Rahwali and Nasir of Jathijay (Sambrial), in their early 20s, had boarded the container from Turkey along with others.
The Turkish authorities had sent the snaps of the dead to Pakistan which were released in local press by the FIA a few days ago. Their families identified them and contacted FIA.
FIA Additional Director Hussain Asghar said that main accused Naseem (who sent some of them abroad) was arrested by a raiding team of the agency after a brief encounter from Gujrat. He said search for his accomplices and other human smugglers was on. Meanwhile, FIA arrested from Islamabad 300 people deported by the Turkish government and brought them here for interrogation.
MURDER:? Two guards of a filling station were stabbed to death by unidentified assailants in Kamoke on Saturday.
Muhammad Sharif and his son Iqbal Hassan were on night duty at the filling station when unidentified people attacked them with knives.
GCCI: The Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday passed a resolution, demanding that President Pervez Musharraf should resign immediately due to uncertain political situation in the country.
At a meeting held in the chamber office, the participants said the president was creating uncertainty in the country which was dealing a blow to economy.
