Tragedy at Libyan-Tunisian border after two more migrant bodies found

Al-Assah, Jul 30 (EFE/EPA).- Al-Assah, Jul 30 (EFE/EPA) - Libyan guards found two more bodies of dead migrants in border areas with Tunisia, where dozens of sub-Saharan Africans displaced this month from the neighbouring country remain stranded.

"The migrants are suffering poor conditions due to a lack of drinking water and food, as well as being outdoors in the high temperatures," said Brigade 19 spokesman Ali Wali, after the border guard recovered five bodies, including a young child, on Tuesday.

"There are still migrants entering from the Tunisian border to the Libyan border, where forces belonging to Brigade 19 have been deployed and a large group of migrants have been returned," Wali added. (Camera: STR).

FOOTAGE OF SUB-SAHARAN MIGRANTS RESTING UPON ARRIVAL AT THE LIBYAN-TUNISIAN BORDER NEAR AL-ASSAH, WEST OF TRIPOLI, LIBYA.

SOUND BITES: MAJOR ABDULLAH AL-FAKHAL OF THE AL-EAS PATROLS.

TRANSLATION: We are on the Libyan-Tunisian border, and as you can see through the visit that you make with us daily, this is the situation we live in. Hundreds and dozens of immigrants from south of the Sahara enter from within the Tunisian borders in a deplorable state, lost, without water or food, under a high temperature, and behind us there is a group of immigrants who have lost their lives. Their lives are thirsty and from the high temperature between the Libyan-Tunisian borders. They have two days walking, they do not know where. There is also a group before that we found them and another group and dozens of immigrants. Their health condition is very deteriorating. There are also missing women and children who could not go on foot. This is the situation daily on the Libyan borders and more than twenty day on this tragic situation

All this work is carried out by Brigade 41, Brigade 19 Border Guard and Illegal Immigration Guard, with its simplest capabilities and what we have, we are trying to save what we can save, and the situation is greater than our energy and the devices we have currently in place The setting is fifty percent, and today it is more than 100 to two hundred or more and groups groups back

They can no longer walk there, groups that also got lost in the desert Today, praise be to God, the heat is good, and we are making the available efforts and assistance, and we are trying to save these people from inevitable death and destruction in this desert.

Most of the immigrants are Africans, Sudanese, Niger, Ghanaians, all of them are Africans, and they come from the Tunisian borders, and we suffer daily from the disastrous situation.