“It will all be OK,” Muhammad Abuzar told him.
The boat was carrying up to 750 Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian and Palestinian refugees and migrants.
His uncle had decided to try and make it to Europe and Abuzar saw his chance.
More than 600 people drowned on June 14 in what would become one of the deadliest migrant boat tragedies.
Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty ImagesSpeaking to CNN in Pakistan, Mohammad Tahir said his brother Mubasher Sahzad, 29, was also on the boat.
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