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Libya says it detains men suspected of burning Nigerian to death

Published 07/10/2020, 16:09
Updated 07/10/2020, 16:12

TRIPOLI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Three Libyans killed a Nigerian
man by setting him on fire in Tripoli, the interior ministry
said on Wednesday, in what a U.N. agency described as "another
senseless crime against migrants in the country".
The Tripoli-based interior ministry said in a statement it
had arrested the three suspects in the case, adding that they
had used petrol to set the victim on fire at a factory.
Federico Soda, Libya country chief for the International
Organisation for Migration (IOM), a U.N. migration agency, said
those responsible must be held accountable.
There are half a million migrants in Libya according to IOM,
some of them having worked in the oil producing country before
it descended into chaos and warfare, others attempting to travel
through it to Europe.
The IOM and the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR have both
repeatedly said that Libya should not be classified as a safe
port for migrants.
Thousands have attempted the perilous sea crossing to Europe
this year, with hundreds drowned in ship wrecks.
In July, three migrants from Sudan were shot dead by Libyan
authorities while trying to flee detention after they were
disembarked in Khums.
In May, some 30 mostly Bangladeshi migrants were shot dead
in a southern desert town after being abducted by a local gang,
Bangladesh and the Libyan interior ministry said at the time.

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