At least 40 people were killed and 80 injured after an airstrike hit a migrant center east of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, according to the Health Ministry's emergency service Field Medicine and Support Center
Images from the ground showed piles of rubble left where the buildings had been, while emergency crews worked to remove both the wounded and the dead.The UN Refugee Agency posted to its official Twitter page that it was"extremely concerned" about the news of the airstrikes targeting the Tajoura detention center.
Armed conflict in and around Tripoli escalated on April 4, when General Khalifa Hafter and his LNA launched an offensive to capture the Libyan capital from the UN-recognized government.Defending the capital are disparate Islamist militia that prop up the UN-recognized transitional government.Human rights organizations said that they have seen both sides potentially committing war crimes, including indiscriminate attacks on residential areas and migrant detention centers.
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