The representative of the Presidential Council, Musa Al-Koni, appreciated the efforts of emergency medicine teams, judicial expertise, forensic medicine, and Libyan border guards in providing aid and saving the lives of illegal immigrants on the border between Libya and Tunisia.
Al-Koni said in a tweet on his account on Twitter (How painful it is, heart breaking to see in this heat, brothers in humanity dying of thirst on the Libyan-Tunisian border, and they were passersby in need of help, even with a drink of water.
He added, “Thank you to the emergency medicine teams, judicial expertise, forensic medicine, and the border guards… for your efforts to save lives, a glorious medallion of brocade in the heart of Libya.”
The security and humanitarian institutions in Libya, including the Libyan Red Crescent Society, have announced that their teams will continue to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to migrants on the Libyan-Tunisian border, including women, children and men who need immediate assistance.
The Libyan Red Crescent made it clear in a post on Twitter that it is working hard with international humanitarian organizations to meet the needs of migrants, saying, “We do not stop working because humanity is our highest value, and a migrant is a human being.”
It is noteworthy that a Libyan human rights organization had expressed its concern about what it described as preliminary information regarding deaths of irregular migrants and asylum seekers on the Libyan-Tunisian border.
The National Institution for Human Rights in Libya said in a statement yesterday, Thursday, that preliminary information indicates the death of three migrants, including a woman, “as a result of their remaining without food or water in the open amidst bad weather and high temperatures in remote desert areas where all the necessities of life are lacking.”
The Foundation added that the victims who died as a result of the inhuman suffering they went through were among the immigrants who were transferred by the Tunisian authorities from several Tunisian states in which they were present to the Libyan-Tunisian border.
Source: Libyan News Agency