Sunday, May 3, 2015

AFP: Libya coastguard intercepts 500 migrants - A rest stop to your neighborhood. --tma

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Libya coastguard intercepts 500 migrants

Misrata (Libya) (AFP) - Libya's coastguard on Sunday intercepted five boats carrying around 500 mostly African migrants trying to reach Europe and brought them back to shore, an official said.

They were transported in buses to detention centres around the city of Misrata, east of the Libyan capital.
"We will try again, for a second time and a third time. We reach Europe or we die," one woman said, asking not to be named. ...