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 ZOUERAT, Mauritania (AP) - There are no roads to this Sahara Desert town, just tracks in the sand. Yet it has become a holding tank for victims of people-smugglers — Asians who set out to find a better life in Europe and ended up dumped in the desert.
Dozens of Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis have turned up in Zouerat over the past 18 months, having been abandoned by the smugglers in the Sahara with little water, no food and no passports. No one knows how many others have died in the empty desert.
Parminder Singh was among 23 men deserted in neighboring Morocco five months ago when the traffickers spotted a military patrol and fled.
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