TRIPOLI • An air strike hit a detention centre for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Tuesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding over 130, the United Nations said. UN Libya envoy Ghassan Salame condemned the strike, saying it "clearly amounts to the level of a war crime". Thousands are held in government-run detention centres in what human rights groups and the UN say are often inhuman conditions. The UNHCR refugee agency had already called in May for the Tajoura centre, which holds 600 people, to be evacuated after a projectile landed less than 100m away, injuring two migrants. The hangar-type detention centre is next to a military camp, one of several in Tajoura, east of Tripoli's centre, which have been targeted by air strikes for weeks.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 03, 2019 21:00 UTC