At the end of a long stretch of sandy beach, a weathered warehouse in the port of Kalamata held the survivors of one of the worst shipwrecks in Europe in a decade. Inside, dazed men from Syria, Egypt and Pakistan, all with numbered badges around their necks, languished on tightly packed corridors of thin mattresses. “I have two brothers,” said Odai Altalab, a 35-year-old Syrian who had rushed down from his home in Manchester, England. We need to know who is dead. Who is dead?”

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Persons: “, ”, Odai Altalab, Mohammed Locations: Kalamata, Europe, Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, Manchester, England