From Libyan hell to migrant boat, 2 young Bangladeshis are saved

Thanks to a telephone, the migrants managed to communicate their GPS position to the Alarm Phone migrant hotline that tracks boats in the Mediterranean

Recounting to an AFP reporter in broken English how armed Libyan traffickers terrorised him for months, Mohammed recalled his captors threatening to “take off my nails.” Arriving in Libya on flights from the United Arab Emirates for a few hundred euros, both young men — who met only while crossing the Mediterranean — had hoped to find jobs there in agriculture, oil or construction.

Fleeing became the only way out. But risking one’s life on the world’s most dangerous migration route comes at a price — $5,000. Where would the money come from?“And then my family sold my house. Sold my house to save me,” he said.

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