Through SOHR | Residents of Shenan town launches distress call, after having lost communications with their children following sinking of immigrant boat near Cyprus coastline
SOHR renews its appeals to relevant authorities to move immediately to disclose the fate of missing Syrians and calls upon international powers tp provide help to Syrian immigrants who seek a safe haven
Residents of Shenan town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor have launched a distress call, through the Syrian Observatory, to Cypriot government, appealing it to move to disclose the fate of 25 Syrian immigrants from east Deir Ezzor countryside, where communications with them have been lost following the sinking of the boat they were traveling in near Cyprus’ coastline. The boat was carrying 60 immigrants, including 25 people from Deir Ezzor countryside.
Sources close to the relatives of the missing Syrians have informed SOHR that the fate of their children remains unknown, and it is not known if the boat sank in the sea or their children have been held by the Cyprus’s coast guards.
According to the sources, communication with 21 Syrian immigrants from Shenan town was lost, after they had entered territorial water on Friday.
SOHR sources have confirmed that those Syrians sought a safe haven away from Syria, as they were struggling with dreadful living conditions. The sources added that they left to Lebanon previously, but they found themselves threaten to be forcibly deported. Accordingly, they had no options but to leave to Europe in order to find decent standards of living.
The relatives of the missing Syrian immigrants have called upon Cypriot, Turkish and Lebanese coast guards, through SOHR, to disclose the fate of their children.
Earlier today, SOHR sources reported that six decadent bodies of unidentified persons were found near the coast of Antalya-Turkey, where their cloths contained labels showing that they are made in Syria. SOHR suggested that the bad weather conditions led the boat to sinking and the bodies of those immigrants, who sought a safe haven, having been thrown to the Turkish coastline.
On the other hand, communications were lost with 25 other Syrian immigrants for six days, after the boat they were traveling in was gone missing near Cyprus’ coastline, where they had set off from Lebanon to Cyprus by sea with the help of smugglers, seeking a safe haven.
According to SOHR sources, the missing Syrians hail from Al-Quriyah city, Al-Shenan town and other village in the eastern countryside of Dier Ezzor, where efforts are underway to find them.
The families of the missing Syrians have launched appeals to relevant authorities to exert diligent efforts to disclose their fate.
