Former Pakistan women’s hockey player Shahida Raza was among at least 67 people killed on the weekend in a refugee shipwreck off the coast of Italy. “Pakistani authorities have informed Raza’s family that the Pakistani national team hockey player perished in the boating accident off the coast of Italy,” Qadir Ali Nayel, a legislator from Balochistan province, told the media on Wednesday.

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