It is depressing to see that our people, desperate to make ends meet, continue to drown in the Mediterranean Sea while in search of a better life. After the bodies of eight Bangladeshis, who were being trafficked to Italy on a tiny boat carrying 53 people, arrived in Dhaka on Thursday, this newspaper documented the harrowing journey of migration as told by a survivor.
“We could hear them struggling to breathe and dying slowly and there was nothing we could do,” said 45-year-old Gurudas Mondol, who had survived the horrifying boat accident in the Mediterranean Sea on February 14.