{"id":56089,"date":"2023-06-20T03:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/19\/i-have-come-for-a-sign-of-life-relatives-cling-to-hope-after-greek-shipwreck"},"modified":"2023-06-20T03:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:27:01","slug":"i-have-come-for-a-sign-of-life-relatives-cling-to-hope-after-greek-shipwreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56089","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I have come for a sign of life\u2019: relatives cling to hope after Greek shipwreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families of missing desperately search for information about their loved ones after maritime disaster<\/p>\n<p>Six days have elapsed since a fishing trawler piloted by people smugglers sank with unimaginable loss of life off Greece and yet they still come: relatives armed with pictures, praying that in the aftermath of the maritime disaster, loved ones are not among the perished. On Monday it was outside the steel gates of a migrant facility in Malakasa, north of Athens, that emotions were on display.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have come for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/18\/we-just-want-to-know-if-he-is-alive-or-dead-migrants-desperate-for-news-of-relatives-in-greece-shipwreck-disaster\">sign of life<\/a> of my uncle Nadim,\u201d said Zohaib Shamraiz whose first stop was the fenced camp after flying into Greece from Barcelona. \u201cI know for sure he was on the boat because I talked to him five minutes before he boarded. He said there were hundreds on the ship and I told him: \u2018Please don\u2019t get on it. Wait for another one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/19\/i-have-come-for-a-sign-of-life-relatives-cling-to-hope-after-greek-shipwreck\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families of missing desperately search for information about their loved ones after maritime disasterSix days have elapsed since a fishing trawler piloted by people smugglers sank with unimaginable loss of life off Greece and yet they still come: relat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,402,491,60,494],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-greece","category-migration","category-pakistan","category-refugees"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089\/revisions\/56090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}