20 bodies found in the Libyan desert

The Libyan Ambulance and Emergency Service announced today, Wednesday, that 20 bodies were recovered from a parked car south of the city of Kufra, southeast of Libya, towards the Chadian border.

"It is likely that the car stopped due to a technical malfunction in the middle of the desert," said Osama Ali, spokesman for the Ambulance and Emergency Services, in a press statement today, indicating that the car was free of any accidents.

The spokesman did not clarify the nationalities and ages of the deceased, and stated that the Public Prosecution and the Judicial Control Department at the Kufra Police Station were the ones who oversaw the recovery operation, explaining that this is the third incident this year in the Libyan desert.

Most of southern Libya is located within the Sahara Desert in Africa, which is the largest in the world, and is a transit corridor for African migrants, whether looking for work in Libya, or wishing to cross the sea illegally, to European shores.

The networks smuggling migrants across the border use desert four-wheel drive vehicles that are able to cross the sand.

According to previous statements by some migrants to the German News Agency, the members of the migration gangs usually pile the migrants in the trunks of the cars in an exaggerated manner, in order to reduce the cost of transporting one person, on trips that are usually fraught with the risks of cars drowning in the sand, stopping, or Lack of water, food or fuel.

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