Tripoli — At least 107 migrants, including women and children, have been released from a town in southeastern Libya, according to a spokesman for the Libyan army. Walid Alorafi, the spokesman for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Benghazi, said that the migrants were held for seven months as they tried to go to Europe. The migrants came from different countries in sub-Saharan Africa, but most of them came from Somalia according to Alorafi. "Last night we attacked a place where they were hiding in the center of Kufra city, and we found illegal migrants including women, children, and old men, some of whom showed signs of torture and gunshots," said Alorafi. The CID released videos showing their forces destroying the house where the migrants were staying.

Source: Libya Today May 10, 2024 08:08 UTC