Inside Dar al-Rahma mortuary in the Tripoli Medical Centre, the cadavers of several dozen people who have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea have accumulated that the mortuary became helpless.
The crisis also affected the Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) that could no longer function because the medical center’s three refrigerators, with total capacity of only 18 bodies, were full.
Al-Rahma’s director Ibrahim Karim told 218NEWS that he called on the state authorities to find a solution to this problem by finding another place to receive the bodies or allocate a plot of land to bury them.
On Friday, the Libyan Navy rescued 199 illegal immigrants, including women and children, while attempting to reach Europe by sea.
The Libyan Navy said the immigrants were of different African nationalities, clarifying that four of them were from Egypt.
The migrants were handed over to the immigration headquarters of the Immigration Control Agency after providing them with humanitarian and medical assistance, according to the Libyan Navy.
Seven years of armed conflict in Libya have left its people with coping mechanisms that are rapidly eroding. Daily life has become difficult and hundreds of thousands of people either remain displaced or are trying to return home.
The unrest, which began in 2011, has left many families completely dependent on humanitarian assistance provided by the LRC.
