Sea rescue NGO Open Arms have rescued 294 migrants, including 49 women and 60 children, on Sunday after they spent 5 days adrift central of the Mediterranean Sea. On Saturday, the Open Arms picked up 59 migrants from Syria, Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea, among them 10 minors, from an oil platform in international waters off Tunisia. Inside the flimsy smugglers’ boat, the charity found the wrapped body of a migrant who had been shot on shore by smugglers, AP reported citing Open Arms spokesperson Laura Lanuza. They spent a day or so at sea, and kept the corpse until they were saved,” Lanuza said. In late June, UN investigators reaffirmed previous reports about migrants and refugees detained in Libya facing serious abuse, with women especially being subjected to sexual violence.

Source: Libya Today September 19, 2022 15:11 UTC