“There was a gang, whose members intentionally deprived them of illegal migrants of their freedom, tortured them and subjected them to a cruel, derogatory and inhuman treatment,” the statement reads.
Images that are shared on the Internet – which BBC did not carry out on their own – show that police and volunteers dig in the sand before place the corpses into black bags.
Search in the case – more than 1,700 kilometers (1056 miles) from the capital of Libya Tripoli – continues.
The Attorney General states that the bodies were accepted for exposing, and investigators suspect links to network smuggling. Authorities document the testimony of survivors.
Last year, a A mass grave containing bodies at least 65 migrants was found in the southwest of Libya. The International Migration Organization (moms) called it “deeply shocking” at the time.
Since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan leader in 2011, the country has become a key transit way for migrants risking a dangerous desert and a Mediterranean maritime transition to get to Europe.
UNICEF said. external that in 2024 the number of people who died or missing in the Mediterranean, trying to reach Europe, exceeded 2200.
