Libya prevents over 100 migrants from boarding boats to Europe

Record ID: 102636

  • Title: Libya prevents over 100 migrants from boarding boats to Europe
  • Date: 20th May 2016
  • Summary: MISRATA, LIBYA (MAY 20, 2016) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) MIGRANTS SITTING ON GROUND WITH POLICE CAR LIGHTS FLASHING VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SITTING IN QUEUES ON GROUND (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LIBYAN BRIGADIER, MUNSIF AL WALDA, SAYING: "We detained 110 migrants from different African nationalities who were preparing to make their way to Europe." VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SITTING ON GROUND VARIOUS OF MIGRANT WOMEN SITTING ON GROUND (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) MIGRANT FROM SUDAN, NAME UNKNOWN, SAYING: "I want to go to Europe to be brought up there, to live there, so I can live and eat. Nothing more. We were smuggled in." VARIOUS OF MIGRANT WOMEN SITTING ON GROUND WITH THEIR CHILDREN VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SITTING ON GROUND
  • Embargoed: 4th June 2016 09:12
  • Keywords: Libya Misrata migrants Europe
  • Location: MISRATA, LIBYA
  • City: MISRATA, LIBYA
  • Country: Libya
  • Reuters ID: LVA0014IM3PZB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: More than a hundred migrants were detained in the Libyan city of Misrata overnight (May 19) before they were due to board boats to Europe, officials said.
    Libyan official Brigadier Munsif al Walda said 110 migrants were detained, all from various African countries.
    The migrants were detained just hours after United Nations Libya envoy Martin Kobler visited an overcrowded migrant detention facility in the capital Tripoli where he described the living conditions as failing to meet humanitarian standards.
    With the closing of land routes in the Balkans and a recent deal under which Greece sends migrants back to Turkey, Italian officials have said they expect more people to try to make this longer and much more dangerous crossing from Libya.
    Hundreds of migrants and refugees have perished at sea during the first four months of the year, mostly along the central Mediterranean route.
    Earlier this month, the International Organization for Migration said 28,593 migrants and refugees have arrived by sea in Italy, while 154,862 have landed in Greece since January.
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