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Further evidence Libya is unsafe for refugees after 30 killed in unofficial migrant detention centre

REFUGEE rights and rescue organisations have reacted with horror to reports that 30 people were shot dead in one of Libya’s unofficial migrant detention centres this week.

The UN-backed Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) announced the killings yesterday afternoon, the day after they took place.

The attack was carried out in a smuggling warehouse near Gharyan, a city south-west of Tripoli, the GNA said and was carried out in revenge over the death of a smuggler killed by migrants.

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