Mourners have attended the funeral of a Pakistani feminine discipline hockey participant who died in a migrant boat crash off Italy’s coast.

The vessel carrying Shahiza Raza and 170 others set sail from the Turkish port of Izmir final month.

On board had been folks – from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and different nations – searching for a greater high quality of life in Europe.

The boat broke aside in tough waters off Calabria, resulting in the deaths of Ms Raza and at the very least 66 others.

Ms Raza’s household stated she tried to to migrate to Europe to discover a good job and earn cash for the remedy of her disabled son, three, so he may dwell a traditional life.

The boy, who was not on the boat, suffered mind injury as a child and is paralysed on one facet of his physique.

Photographs of Ms Raza donning the nation’s nationwide colors and sporting accolades have appeared on tv and social media.

But, with ladies’s sports activities not broadly televised in Pakistan, most individuals solely got here to know of her after her loss of life, which despatched a wave of shock and grief by the nation.