Video: Libya’s Coast Guard Detains 600 Migrants
Libya’s coast guard detains almost 600 African Migrants
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s coast guard detained on Wednesday almost 600 illegal African migrants, among them pregnant women and 18 children, who had tried to sail to Europe on a fishing boat, a security official said.
[…]“The coast guard arrested early this morning 585 illegal migrants from different African countries such as Somalia, Eritrea, Ghana and Mali,“ said Mohamed al-Ghwaili, a spokesman for a police department tasked with tackling immigration.He said the Africans had tried to set off to Italy in an old fishing boat in Sabratha, a town west of the capital Tripoli.