Officials say the bodies of migrants found in Libya month tomb

The Attorney General of the country said that the bodies of at least 28 migrants have been recovered from a collective tomb in a desert in South-East Libya.

The tomb was discovered to the north of Kufra, another collective tomb was found in a farm in the same city with 19 bodies.

Authorities found the latest tomb after a raid of a human trafficking, where the authorities freed 76 migrants, who were detained and tortured, posted by the Attorney General’s office on Facebook.

One Libya and two foreigners have been arrested, it was added.

The statement said, “There was a gang whose members deliberately denied illegal migrants, tortured them and subjected them to cruel, derogatory and inhuman treatment.”

Images shared online – which the BBC has not verified independently – digging in the sand before placing corpses in black bags to police and volunteers.

Search in Kufra – Libya’s capital Tripoli continues more than 1,700 km (1,056 mi).

The Attorney General says that the bodies recovered have been taken for the body examination, investigators are suspected of the smugglers’ link to the network. Officers are documenting the testimony of the remaining people.

Last year, A Body grave with at least 65 migrants It was found in the south-west of Libya. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) described it as “deep -shocking” at that time.

Since overthrowing Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country has become a major transit route for migrants that risk dangerous deserts and the Mediterranean Sea crossings to reach Europe.

UNICEF has said In 2024, people who were killed or disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea, trying to reach Europe, overtook 2,200.