MSF: “One migrant killed, 2 wounded in shelter in Libya

Doctors Without Borders announced that one migrant was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting inside a shelter in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

The organization said, in a statement on Friday, that the accident occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning, and one of its teams received immigrants with gunshot wounds, and they were 17 and 18 years old.

The statement added that the “severely overcrowded” center witnessed a state of great tension on the night of the accident, before “the matter reached its climax with indiscriminate firing” towards its inmates who were illegal immigrants.

The organization’s director of operations in Libya, Eileen Velden, said the incident demonstrated the “grave dangers” migrants face in the shelters.

Since last February, the organization has monitored the increase in Libyan coast guard operations to stop migrants while trying to cross the sea to Europe, “which contributed to an unmanageable surge in the numbers” of those in the shelters and the deterioration of living conditions there.