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said on Thursday it had information that Libyan guards shot at refugees and
A report from the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said there were two air strikes late on Tuesday, one hitting an unoccupied garage and one hitting a hangar containing around 120 refugees and
"There are reports that following the first impact, some refugees and
Bodies were still being recovered from the rubble, the report said, suggesting the corpse count could rise.
There are still about 500 people at the detention center at Tajoura, east of 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...
, with four Nigerians set for release to the Nigerian embassy on Thursday and a plan for 31 women and kiddies to be sent to the UN refugee agency’s departures facility in Tripoli.
There was no comment from Libyan officials on the OCHA report.
Interior Minister Fathi Ali Bashagha said the Tripoli government was considering closing all detention centers for
Libya is one of the main departure points for African
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The 53 dead was the highest publicly reported toll from an air strike or shelling since the Libyan National Army launched a ground and aerial offensive three months ago to take Tripoli, the base of Libya’s UN-recognized government in the northwest of the country.
"The number of civilian casualties caused by the conflict has almost doubled as the result of this single attack," the OCHA report said, a day after UN officials said the air strikes may have constituted a war crime.
The United Nations has repeatedly said Libya is not a safe place for rescued
It has declined to directly criticize Italia for shutting its doors but said European states must help to resolve the conflict in Libya in order to stop people taking perilous sea journeys.
The center is close to a military base and an air strike on nearby Libyan government forces on May 7 injured two people in the center. Despite the risks, Libyan authorities had continued to transfer