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Aid group: 13 migrants suffocate in Libya shipping container

The locked container was transported from the central town of Bani Walid to Khoms in western Libya, from where the migrants were to be taken across the Mediterranean. The bodies of the victims were lined up, covered with bed covers, and then moved to black plastic bags that the Red Crescent marked with names and numbers of those who were identified by fellow migrants. The tragedy is one of the latest in Libya, where human trafficking has thrived amid lawlessness in this North African country since the 2011 downfall of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The Libya-to-Italy smuggling route across the Mediterranean has seen record numbers of migrant drownings in 2016, Fabrice Leggeri, director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, said last week.

 

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