Migrants in Libyan jail were reportedly seriously wounded in shooting

Migrants in a detention facility in the Libyan capital Tripoli have reportedly been seriously wounded in a random shooting, the UN migration agency IOM said on Tuesday.

IOM gave no more details of the incident which it said took place in a facility in Qasr Ben Ghashir, a southern suburb fought over by forces loyal to Libya’s rival governments.

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IOM has been moving some migrants out of detention centres in Tripoli, which forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar have been trying to take in a three-week offensive.

But more than 3,000 migrants are still in detention centres there, among them women and children, IOM said in a tweet.

Libya hosts more than 700,000 people who have fled their homelands, often trekking through the desert in pursuit of their dream of crossing the sea to a better life in Europe.

General Khalifa Haftar taking over Libya – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]