GENEVA: More than 12
migrants were shot dead by human
Traffickers last week while
trying to escape a camp in Libya, where some were subjected to “torture abuse”, the United Nations said Friday.The incident, previously reported by Doctors Without Borders and local sources, occurred on May 23 in the town of Bani Walid, 170 kilometres (110 miles) southeast of Tripoli. “Human
Traffickers in
Libya reportedly killed more than a dozen people and wounded many others after a group of some 200 Eritreans, Ethiopians and Somalis, being held captive, attempted to escape,” the UN refugee agency said in a statement, adding that those killed “were shot”. “The survivors spoke of torture abuse and exploitation at the hands of
Traffickers - some being held in captivity for up to three years,” the statement added.
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