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Libya Stops Nigerians, Other Migrants From Crossing to Europe

Illegal migrants from Africa, attempting to reach Europe, walk towards a detention center off the coastal town of Guarabouli, 60 kilometres (36 miles) east of the capital, on July 8, 2017. Thirty-five migrants, including seven children, were feared drowned after their inflatable craft sank off the Libyan coast, the coastguard said. Eighty-five migrants, including 18 women, were rescued with the help of fishermen who alerted the coastguard. / AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)

Libyan coastguard has intercepted 156 migrants, including Nigerians, in two separate incidents as they tried to reach Europe by sea, the Navy said.

Navy spokesman Ayoub Qasim said that Libyan coastguard stopped a rubber boat carrying 116 migrants including five women
 off the western Libyan town of Zuwara.

He said that the migrants from different African nations had been transported to a sea base in the
 capital Tripoli.

Earlier, 40 migrants including eight women and a child were stopped aboard a rubber boat late Saturday
also off Zuwara.

The 40 migrants included 19 Moroccans, 16 Nigerians, four Egyptians and a Syrian, the navy’s media
 centre said on its Facebook page.

In recent months, the Libyan coastguard has reported intercepting various vessels carrying hundreds of
migrants heading to Europe via the Mediterranean Sea.

Libya has descended into chaos since the 2011 revolt that toppled long-time dictator Moamer Gaddafi.

The North African country has since emerged as a gateway to Europe for people fleeing war, persecution
and poverty in their homelands.

 

NAN

 

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