![]() “We didn’t know he wanted to take a boat,” he said. “He told us he wanted to work in a restaurant” and had planned to send money to help the family, Iyad added. The teenager was looking for a better life in Libya, his father said, and had travelled there by plane from Damascus. “I still have hope that he will be among the survivors,” Iyad told AFP by telephone on Saturday. The 47-year-old said he had heard of two Greek reports - one listing his son among the survivors and another among the dead. “His mother hasn’t stopped crying for three days.” I haven’t heard his voice,” said Iyad, who works at a school and declined to provide his surname. Iyad from Jassem in the southern province of Daraa, the cradle of Syria’s 12-year civil war, said his 19-year-old son Ali was still unaccounted for. While the exact number of passengers on the rusty trawler is unknown, hundreds are feared missing, and relatives and activists have told AFP at least 141 Syrians were aboard. ![]() ![]() In war-torn Syria, parents of teenagers missing in a shipwreck off the Greek coast are clinging onto hope their children might be alive, days after the tragedy.Ī fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank off Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people. Maher al-Mounes with Aya Iskandarani in Beirut ![]()
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