Libyan authority are saying that 90 migrants from various Sub-Saharan African and Arab countries, as well as Pakistan and Bangladesh, were found in a lorry container in the west Libyan coast on Monday.
Six children, one woman and a young man were found dead among the 90 migrants, just outside Zuwara, close to the Mellitah oil and gas complex, in western Libya.
According to Libyan officials, those who died had been shut inside a refrigerated container designed for transport of meat and fish which was found just outside Zuwara, a city 110 km from capital Tripoli.
It posted pictures of at least nine plastic jerry cans inside the container, as well as a pile of life-jackets apparently intended for use in a boat crossing of the mediterranean Sea.
Smugglers and traffickers took advantage of Libya’s lawlessness to send hundreds of thousands of migrants to Italy over the past four years, though flows have slowed since last summer due to an Italian-backed crackdown on smuggling networks.
