A growing number of refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan have died while hiking over the mountains and trying to cross Lake Van in fishing boats, a massive interior lake next to the city of Van, Turkey. People have begun to do this because Turkey has stepped up controls on the roads — but horrific boat accidents in recent years have led to dozens of drownings. People who have died on this route are buried in a cemetery in town, and a lawyer’s association is trying to locate family members of the dead.
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