KUFRA, Libya
Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert according to officials.
It's the latest tragedy
involving people seeking to reach Europe through the North African country.
19 bodies were found Friday in
a farm in the city of Kufra.
Authorities posted images on
its Facebook page showing police officers and medics digging in the sand and
recovering dead bodies that were wrapped in blankets.
Migrants’ mass graves are common in Libya. Last year, authorities unearthed the bodies of at least 65
migrants in the Shuayrif region, 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of the
capital, Tripoli.
Libya is the main transit
point for migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to make it to Europe.
Human traffickers have benefited from more than a decade of instability,
smuggling migrants across the country’s borders with six countries, including
Chad, Niger, Sudan Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia.
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