324 illegal migrants, including Nigerians were rescued by Libyan coastguards off northern Zuwara shores in Libya on Monday.
The spokesman for the Libyan Navy, Ayoub Qassim, told the
press that among the immigrants were 35 women and 16 children onboard
two dinghies, whose engines stopped en route to Italy off Libyan shores.
"We have received information about the rubber boats and
then the Zuwara branch of coastguards and interior ministry's coast
guard personnel headed to the rescue operation." Qassim remarked.
He explained that the migrants were from Chad, Nigeria,
Mali and Ivory Coast, besides a Tunisian national, a Moroccan, and four
Pakistanis and 32 Libyans.
"Libyans included 8 women and 6 children, who were sent to
Zuwara port before handing them over to Zuwara Passports Investigation
Department." Qassim indicated.
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