"In Libya there are all those Asma Boys, street boys. Gambian teenager Ebrima Sanneh said the Asma Boys were responsible for shooting dead his Senegalese uncle, who was in his 20s, and wounding his Libyan employer, Mohammed, in the arm. Updated Fri, June 10th 2016 at 19:07 GMT +3Street gangs in Tripoli, known as Asma Boys, attacked him with shards of broken glass, slicing his leg and his face, 17-year-old Augustine Okukpon from Nigeria said at a shelter in Sicily. They said they don't need any blacks in Libya," he told Reuters at an old villa turned into a shelter for migrant boys in the medieval hilltop town of Caltagirone. He tried to give Sanneh the 2,500 Libyan dinar ($1,800) he had earned with his uncle in construction work, but Sanneh said he refused.

Source: Standard Digital June 10, 2016 11:15 UTC