Family of murdered smuggler in Libya kill 30 migrants in revenge, says ministry

TRIPOLI - The family of a Libyan smuggler killed by migrants have taken revenge by killing 26 Bangladeshis and four Africans, the country's UN-recognised government said on Thursday .

The killings took place in the town of Mezdah, some 150km south of the North African country's capital Tripoli, the interior ministry said.In revenge, members of his family killed 30 migrants. Eleven other migrants, whose nationalities it did not specify, were injured and admitted to hospital in Zentan, 170km south-west of Tripoli, it said.The fall and killing of veteran dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a 2011 uprising sparked years of chaos that traffickers have exploited to turn Libya into a key route for illicit migration towards Europe.

Several thousand migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are stranded in Libya in horrifying conditions. Their situation has become even more critical since eastern military strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an assault on Tripoli in 2019, followed this year by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

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