Most of them are from Egypt ... the liberation of 120 immigrants who were held hostage in Libya

Hostages after their liberation.

Yesterday, Wednesday, a Libyan military unit announced that it had liberated 120 migrants, most of them from Egypt, who were being held hostage by gangs of smugglers in the west of the country.

"Brigade 444 Fighting," one of the elite forces of the army in western Libya, said in a statement that at dawn on Wednesday, "our forces managed to release a number of hostages in Bani Walid, and military detachments raided other hideouts of human traffickers, and freed about 120 hostages who were subjected to torture and extortion operations." According to their testimony, and most of them hold the Egyptian nationality. "

Last week, this same military unit carried out a major operation against smuggling, kidnapping and human trafficking gangs in Bani Walid, a city located at the gates of the Libyan desert, 170 km southeast of the capital, Tripoli, which is one of the main centers of human trafficking in this country.

According to the 444th Brigade, that operation freed 70 migrants who were held in six hideouts for trafficking gangs.

The 444th Brigade said at that time that its members "carried out a tight military mission and stormed six sites belonging to the smuggling, kidnapping and human trafficking gangs, during which they managed to liberate 70 hostages."

He added that the operation also led to "the arrest of the most prominent suspects in smuggling cases in the country, in addition to criminals of other nationalities who practiced kidnapping, murder and torture on their victims."

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