Her coast guard Libya announced that on Thursday off the west coast it intercepted five boats in which they were riding 280 immigrants, as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
“A Libyan Coast Guard patrol rescued 280 migrants of different nationalities from African countries on Tuesday (November 2nd) as they headed for European shores,” the Libyan Navy said in a statement.
These migrants, who were “riding in four wooden boats and a rubber dinghy”, they returned on the coast of Zouara, near the border with Tunisia, before being handed over to the anti-immigration service, it added.
A few-second video posted by the Libyan Navy shows one of the boats with more than 50 passengers on board. intercepted on the high seas.
Immersed in chaos after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya has become node for tens of thousands of migrants seeking to reach Europe by sea, AFP reports.
The Libyan Navy even intercepts boats and boats with migrants in international waters before reach the Italian coast. The migrants are sent back to Libya and then deported under arrest in harsh conditions, which NGOs and the UN often complain.
THE International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently relaunched a program after suspending it for almost two years for the repatriation of humanitarian flights of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees who have been deported to Libya.
Its citizens Γκάμπιας and her Of Nigeria were repatriated on two flights, one from Tripoli in October and the other from Misrata yesterday, Wednesday.
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