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Disaster after disaster People are dying at sea as they try to flee from climate havoc

Before the Adriana, an overcrowded trawler, left Libya on 9 June, Sajjad Yousef spoke to his father. His family had begged him not to make the treacherous journey from Pakistan to Europe. But Yousef wouldn’t listen. He wanted to leave the desolation of life in Pakistan far behind. He knew the journey would be rough. His family had borrowed the millions of rupees to buy him space on that trawler, and Yousef was ready to take his chance.

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