A total of 310 illegal immigrants left Tajoura detention centre Wednesday for the Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency in Tripoli’s Trig al-Seka.
In a statement, the agency said the immigrants walked to the agency in Trig al-Seka, refusing to take the agency’s buses in condemnation of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees rejection of transferring them to another country.
The statement added that the Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency provided them with shelters and basic needs.
The United Nations accused the guards of the Government of National Accord (GNA) of shooting migrants while trying to flee the airstrike that targeted Tajoura’s detention centre late July 3.
A Thursday report issued by the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the guards forced migrants to stay in the Tajoura detention centre even after two airstrikes had hit an unoccupied garage and a hangar housing about 120 refugees and migrants near the detention centre.
“There are reports that following the first impact, some refugees and migrants were fired upon by guards as they tried to escape,” the U.N. report added.
Tajoura’s detention center, which hoste around 600 migrants, lost at least 44 lives and more than 130 were severely injured.
