BENGHAZI, Libya — The UN refugee agency is calling for an immediate end to bringing migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean back to Libya after an airstrike hit a detention center, killing at least 40 people. Then, an airstrike that hit nearby injured two migrants among more than 500 people detained there. A Libyan health official says an airstrike has hit a detention center for migrants in a suburb of the capital of Tripoli, killing at least 40 people. Malek Merset, a spokesman for the health ministry of the UN-supported government, says the airstrike on the Tajoura detention center also wounded 80 migrants. Libya is split between two warring governments and Hifter’s forces control much of the country’s east and south.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 03, 2019 08:35 UTC