February 10, 2025

Libyan authorities have detained a Libyan national and two foreigners as suspects after recovering at least 28 bodies of migrants from a mass grave in the desert in southeast Libya.

The country’s attorney general said on  its Facebook page on Sunday that it has begun documenting  testimonies of  survivors.

The bodies were said to have been  found north of Kufra city, while 76 migrants were freed “from forced detention.”

“There was a gang whose members deliberately deprived illegal migrants of their freedom, tortured them and subjected them to cruel, humiliating and inhumane treatment,” the attorney general said.

It said that the authorities have begun conducting forensic tests to understand “the cause of their deaths.”