By RFIPalled on 04-26-2019Modified on 26-04-2019 at 22:41

The Qasr Bin Gashir detention center, in which 700 people were locked up, was attacked on April 23, reports Doctors Without Borders. Unidentified gunmen fired into the crowd, killing several people and injuring a dozen.

There were 700 men, women and children locked up in the Qasr Bin Gashir Detention Center at the time of the attack. The photos they were able to send from their phones show deep wounds, probably from guns. In the videos they transmitted, we can hear detonations and screams of terror.

Witnesses told of the bursting of gunmen, who fired blindly on the refugees and migrants massed in this overcrowded hangar. " Just imagine the situation of hearing the sound of fighting, of not seeing what is happening, of not being able to shelter you. And that is the experience of migrants and refugees in detention centers in Tripoli today, "warns Hassiba Hadj-Sahraoui of MSF.

Migrants "extremely vulnerable"

Doctors Without Borders indicates that these people were transferred by the NGOs to the Zawiya detention center between Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25. But, " even if they are no longer in close proximity to the fighting, they remain in detention, in detention. a dangerous and inhuman environment, " deplores the NGO, which calls for the immediate evacuation of some 3,000 migrants and refugees detained in Tripoli.

Especially as moving refugees " from one detention center to another it does not work, " says Hassiba Hadj-Sahraoui. In some centers, the guards " completely abandoned the detention center, sometimes with detainees still locked up ". And while migrants suffer " problems of food, medicine and water supply " and have no access to any family or friendly network, this makes them " extremely vulnerable ".

The center that was targeted is in an area that was under the control of Marshal Haftar's forces. But neither the identity of the attackers nor their motivations are known for the moment. And in any case, MSF's priority is to ensure that " injured people have access to the best possible health care and recover from their experience ".

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