in the middle of the vastness libyan desertSeveral bodies were found. one point immigrants they died of thirst a few weeks ago, but nobody noticed until this Wednesday. The vehicle, which broke down 120 kilometers from the Chad border, was surrounded by riot police. rotting corpses. On the day Doctors Without Borders (MSF) condemned Libya, another tragedy struck thousands of refugees in Libya. sinking of a boat It caused the disappearance of 30 people in the Mediterranean.
A truck driver He was traveling through the desert when he encountered the dreadful sight and set off the alarm. from the nearest city swearRescue and emergency team was dispatched after the bodies were found 320 kilometers southwest. “driver [de los migrantes] disappeared and we believe the group died in the desert. about 14 days ago Since the last cell phone call on June 13,” said the Kufra ambulance chief, Ibrahim Belhasanby phone Reuters. In this sparsely populated area of Libya, temperatures 40 degrees centigrade.
According to the ambulance service, two of the dead are believed to be Libyans and the others are Libyan immigrants. Chad Who had crossed into Libya. This North African country transition zone For immigrants from sub-Saharan region. After crossing the Sahara Desert, they try to reach the European shores by crossing the Mediterranean. The conditions between the sandy eternity are very extreme and cause many of the immigrants to suffer. dehydration or high temperatures. Many are also victims extortion and the violence after the traders abandoned them and disappeared.
Shipwreck in the Mediterranean
Meanwhile, thousands of kilometers away, the water took the lives of dozens of immigrants. At least 30 people These people, including women and children, disappeared after a flimsy rubber boat sank on the shores of Europe. A Rescue ship operated by MSF managed to reach the ship and rescue dozens of immigrants. “We have seen many people drown, men, women and children, and we will never forget the day we lived; “We tried to save them, but we couldn’t save them all,” he said. young Cameroonian In a statement posted by MSF on Twitter, he is 17.
These tragedies come six days after the news. 19 year old suicide In one of Libya’s detention centers. In Ain Zara, south of the capital Tripoli, Mohammed Mahmud AbdulazizA refugee from Sudan’s Darfur region committed suicide by hanging himself in one of the rooms he shared with hundreds earlier this month. His motionless body lived for hours with other immigrants from the roof.
cemetery in the desert
Also a week ago MSF calls for evacuation of migrants From Libya and especially the most vulnerable to safer countries. A report shows: weak protection mechanisms For people trapped in an African state that has been in chaos for more than a decade. In January, the UN officially 12,000 immigrants In Libya’s 27 detention centers and prisons, but there could be more.
The dangerous looseness of the desert makes it a budding graveyard. Despite the difficulty of obtaining data, the number of immigrants trying to die Crossing the Sahara Desert is even bigger More than lives swallowed by the Mediterranean. Records of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Missing Migrants project 5,386 deaths Since 2014, 24,234 in the desert and in the sea. But the desert sand is believed to hide many unnamed corpses.