Liby authorities found the common ditch on Saturday night after the arrest of four individuals, one of whom of which Libya, suspected of smuggling
The Agency to Combat Irregular Migration in East Libya announced the 30 -bodies discovery in a common Kufra Desert, the second gender discovery in less than a week in the east of the country.
“We discovered a new common ditch in the Kufra Desert (southeastern Libya), with about 30 corpses. Searches continue and the number of bodies should exceed 70, ”said agency president Mohamed Ali al-Fadil on social networks.
The Libyan authorities found the common ditch on Saturday night after the detention of four individuals, one of whom of Libya nationality, suspected of smuggling, murder and abduction.
Last Wednesday, the bodies of 19 more people were found in ordinary ditches in a farm used by a chain of illegal smuggling and immigration in the district of Al Wahat, in the northeast of the country.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IM), Libya, with a population of seven million, welcomes about 720,000 people from 44 countries, mostly from the African continent and a large number of Sudan, which flee from armed conflicts Through Kufra, the border zone between the two countries.
The North Africa country is the main starting point in the central Mediterranean on the migratory route to Europe, from which 3,400 migrants from the 3,580s who arrived on the Italian back since the beginning of the year, according to the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR).
In January, the Libyan authorities dismantled a criminal group in Al Wahat that kept captive 263 migrants from Eritreia and Somalia, demanding the rescue of their families in exchange for their release.
