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Libya deports 160 migrants to Bangladesh
The Libyan government has deported 160 Bangladeshi migrants voluntarily to their home country.
An officer with the Libyan IIlegal Migration Control Department, Khalid al-Abyad, confirmed the news to the media on Wednesday.
He said: “Today, we deported 160 illegal migrants of Bangladeshi nationality to their country through a flight from Tripoli Mitiga International Airport to Dhaka, Bangladesh.”
Al-Abyad confirmed that work to advance the voluntary departure of migrants would continue in the future.
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He said the move followed the department’s deportation of a group of Egyptian migrants to their home country via the land port on Tuesday.
The insecurity and chaos in the country since the fall of its late leader, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2011 has led many migrants, mostly Africans, to choose to cross the Mediterranean Sea to European shores from Libya.
A total of 4,767 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya this year alone.
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