At the least 65 migrants’ our bodies have been found in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the Worldwide Group for Migration stated on social media platform X on Friday.
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IOM stated in a press release the circumstances of the migrants‘ loss of life and nationalities was unknown “however it’s believed that they died within the technique of being smuggled by way of the desert.”
❗️At the least 65 migrants’ our bodies have been present in a mass grave in Southwest Libya.
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Libya has became a transit route for migrants fleeing battle and poverty to Europe following the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed rebellion in 2011.
In an unverified message on Fb, the Prison Investigation Division (CID) of the inside ministry in Tripoli on Wednesday posted drone footage of a desert space, displaying white markings and yellow tape across the stays of our bodies with numbers on them.
The CID stated the our bodies have been present in al-Jahriya valley in Al Shuwairf city, about 421 km (262 miles) south of Tripoli.
The division stated that after taking DNA samples, all of the our bodies have been buried in a cemetery on directions from the lawyer normal of the appeals chamber in Gharyan city.
(Reuters)