Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 23rd March. International Migration agency on Friday said that a mass grave has been found in southwest Libya contained 65 migrants who are believed to have died while being smuggled through the desert.
According to the IOM voiced alarm increasing numbers of people are dying on dangerous routes to northern Africa and beyond.
The agency warned that without legal pathways for migrants, “such tragedies will continue to be a feature along this route,” the agency warned.
The circumstances are not clear surrounding the deaths of those found in the mass grave and their nationalities are also unknown, IOM stated.
Libyan authorities had launched an inquiry, IOM said.
It urged the “dignified recovery, identification and transfer of the remains of the deceased migrants” and for their families to be notified.
According to the UN agency’s Missing Migrants Project, at least 3,129 people died or disappeared in 2023 along the so-called “Mediterranean route”.
Even before the discovery of the mass grave, it was already the deadliest migratory route in the world.
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