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Special As fuel prices soar, Karachi’s young fishermen make perilous journeys on makeshift plastic boats video

As fuel prices soar, Karachi’s young fishermen make perilous journeys on makeshift plastic boats

  • Manually operated vessels made of plastic barrels are designed to float in deep waters, can be dangerously unstable
  • Boatbuilders say more fishermen using the barrel rafts, attributing their popularity to spike in fuel prices
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