Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, officials said Sunday, in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-stricken North African country.
Kufra, the security directorate said in a statement, adding that authorities took them for autopsy.
human trafficking centre, according to Mohamed al-Fadeil, head of the security chamber in Kufra.
migrants in the Shuayrif region, 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of the capital, Tripoli.
migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to make it to Europe. The country plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.
traffickers pack desperate migrants seeking a better life in Europe into ill-equipped rubber boats and other vessels for risky voyages on the perilous Central Mediterranean Sea route.
UN agencies have for years documented systematic abuse of migrants in Libya, including forced labour, beatings, rapes and torture. The abuse often accompanies efforts to extort money from families before migrants are allowed to leave Libya on traffickers’ boats.
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