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At least 19 migrants killed, up to 79 injured in road accident in Libya

Other News Materials 14 February 2018 14:46 (UTC +04:00)
At least 19 illegal migrants were killed on Wednesday and up to 79 injured in a road accident in the Libyan city of Bani Walid
At least 19 migrants killed, up to 79 injured in road accident in Libya

At least 19 illegal migrants were killed on Wednesday and up to 79 injured in a road accident in the Libyan city of Bani Walid, a military source said, Reuters reports.

Among the dead were Somalis and Eritreans who had been traveling in a truck packed with migrants, the source said. No more details were immediately available.

Bani Walid, located south of Tripoli, is a hub for smugglers to bring migrants from Libya’s southern sub-Saharan neighbors to the coast from where they are shipped by boat to Italy.

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