Read< 1minuteA group of deportee immigrants wait before boarding to a plane, heading to Nigeria during their deportation at Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli, Libya on February 14, 2017. (Photo by Hazem Turkia/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The Interior Ministry of Libya’s UN-backed government on Monday said it arrested 57 immigrants in the city of Zuwara, some 90 km west of the capital Tripoli.
A total of 57 immigrants of different nationalities were arrested as they were preparing to cross the sea towards Europe, the ministry said in a statement.
Libya has been experiencing insecurity and chaos since the fall of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, which makes the North African country a preferred point for thousands of immigrants bound for Europe.
