The coffins of illegal migrants, who were found dead from a shipping container, are arranged by Pakistani medial workers to send them their homeland. — AP/File

QUETTA A division bench of Balochistan high court has expressed dissatisfaction over the report submitted by the Federal Investigation agency in the container incident case in which 45 Afghans national had lost lives.

The bench comprising of Chief Justice Amanullah Khan Yasinzai and Justice Mehta Kalash Nath Kohli has directed the FIA authorities to explain on whose orders the survivors in the incident were sent back to Afghanistan without filing cases against them.

The FIA submitted the report before the court, placing the challan (subpoena) pertaining to the arrests of the alleged accused in the incident.

The court directed the Inspector General (IG) of Frontier Corps and Commandant Frontier Corps at Chaman to submit report stating that whether the FC staff had checked the container in question at the border.

The court asked the Collector Customs Balochistan to appear in person in next hearing. The court had on April six taken suo-motu notice on the death of 45 Afghan nationals in a container parked at Hazarganji bus stand suburb of the city on April 4. The hearing was adjourned till August 5.

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