The Latest: Pakistan: 11 citizens killed in migrant tragedy
PARIS (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):
3:15 p.m.
Pakistan's foreign ministry has confirmed that up to 11 citizens from the country are among migrants who drowned after a boat capsized off Libya's coast.
Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal told The Associated Press that Pakistani diplomats had reached Libya's coastal area to collect more details. He said that Pakistani authorities will try to bring back the bodies of Pakistanis killed in the tragedy.
The U.N. migration organization says its partner agencies are reporting that about 90 migrants are feared to have drowned in the capsizing and that the boat was carrying mostly Pakistani migrants.