TRIPOLI, Oct. 8 (Reuters) – At least six migrants were shot dead on a Tripoli detention Centre on Friday, the head of Libya from the UN Migration Office mission said, as many reportedly escaped from the facility and gathered others in nearby streets.
overcrowding triggered chaos in the center of Ghot Shaal, with people to sleep in the open and various security forces present, said Federico Soda, the Libyan mission head for the international organization for Migration (IOM).
“The shooting has begun,” he said, adding that at least six people were killed.
Libyan security forces have cracked down on migrants, refugees and asylum seekers over the past week, arrest more than 5,000.
There are hundreds of thousands of migrants in Libya, some want to travel further to Europe and others come to work in the main oil exporter.
she routinely face violence in a country that has had little peace for a decade, with many loved in detention centers die the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR says are crowded and unsanitary, and where Amnesty International on Friday they said face torture and sexual abuse.
Libyan government of National Unity was not immediately available for comment.
The country has been in crisis since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising against Muammar Gaddafi and many more of it is being checked on ground by local forces die operate independently of the government.
Countless videos posted on social media on Friday, die Reuters could not immediately verify, showed dozens of people flow through a hole in a fence, and larger numbers march through the streets of Tripoli.
Two residents said they had seen large numbers of migrants die running through the streets in Which area.
Soda said security forces in Tripoli later held at least 900 migrants on Friday, probably including many of die who had fled detention Centre.
A Reuters journalist saw dozens of of migrants sit on the floor surrounded by guards and said there was a very heavy security presence around the area and there had been sporadic sounds of to shoot.
UNHCR previously said on Friday there was more and more alarm over the situation for migrants and refugees in Libya na more over 5,000 were arrested in the recent crackdown.
“The raids, die also involved in the demolition of many unfinished buildings and makeshift houses, have led to widespread panic and fear among asylum seekers and refugees in the capital,” it said in a statement.
UN investigators said abuses on Monday against migrants and refugees in Libya were “on a widespread scale . with a high level of organization and with the encouragement of the state . suggestive of crimes against humanity”.
Reporting by Ahmed Elumami in Tripoli, Angus McDowall in Tunis and Reuters Libya editorial Editing by Marguerita Choy and John Stonestreet
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