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Eight migrants found dead in shipping container in Libya
[Al Jazeera] Eight migrants colonists including six children were found dead after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a truck container on Libya's western coast.

Another 90 migrants colonists recovered from the container on Monday were at death's door and taken to a local hospital for treatment, the security directorate in the town of Zuwarah said in a statement.

Zuwarah is one of the points along Libya's western coastline where smugglers and traffickers hold migrants colonists before putting them on boats to try to cross to Europe.

The migrants colonists were from various sub-Saharan African and Arab countries, as well as Pakistain and Bangladesh, the statement said.

They had been locked inside a refrigerated container designed for transporting meat and fish that was found just outside Zuwarah, close to the Mellitah oil and gas complex, about 110km from the capital, Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
"As a result of the length of time they suffocated, eight of them died including six children, one woman and a young man," the security directorate said.

It posted pictures of at least nine plastic jerry cans holding petrol, as well as a pile of life-jackets apparently intended for use in a boat crossing.

Daytime temperatures in northwest Libya have been in the mid to high 30 degrees Celsius in recent days.
Posted by: Fred 2018-07-17
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