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Libyan Guards Reportedly Shot At Migrants Fleeing Air Strikes
The death toll from an air strike on a migrant detention centre in Libya is expected to rise, officials have said, as the UN claimed that guards shot at escaping refugees and migrants during the raid, According to Middleeasteye.net.
It comes as a senior United Nations diplomat accused European countires of being “blinded’ to the plight of refugee and migrants, and compared conditions of migrant detention centres in Libya to the camps of the Khmer Rouge, who carried out the Cambodian genocide.
At least 53 people, including six children, were killed and 130 injured, when an air strike hit a hangar containing around 120 refugees and migrants at the Tajura detention centre in a suburb of Libya’s capital Tripoli late on Tuesday.
Safa Mshehli, a communications officer at the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) office in Libya, told Middle East Eye on Thursday that “due to severity of the attacks, bodies are still being retrieved” from beneath the rubble and that the final death toll was likely to rise.
A male survivor from the air strike said in video footage seen by Middle East Eye: “The number of dead people may be increased because some of them need a lot of treatment at hospitals outside of Tripoli.”
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