{"id":24067,"date":"2026-02-22T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/five-bodies-of-migrants-washed-ashore-in-east-of-libyas-capital-tripoli-police\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:49","slug":"five-bodies-of-migrants-washed-ashore-in-east-of-libyas-capital-tripoli-police","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/five-bodies-of-migrants-washed-ashore-in-east-of-libyas-capital-tripoli-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Five bodies of migrants washed ashore in east of Libya&#8217;s capital Tripoli: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">At least five bodies of migrants including two women have been washed ashore in \u064eQasr al-Akhyar, a coastal town in the east of Libya&#8217;s capital Tripoli, a police officer told <i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Hassan Al-Ghawil, head of investigations at the Qasr Al-Akhyar police station, said that according to people in the area, a child&#8217;s body washed ashore and because of the waves&#8217; height the body returned to the sea, and the coast guard was asked to search for it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ghawil said the bodies are all dark-skinned people. The bodies were found on Emhamid Al-Sharif shore in the western part of the town by people who reported to the police station.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Libya has become a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to Europe across the Mediterranean since the fall in 2011 of dictator Muammar Gaddafi to a NATO-backed uprising. Factional conflict has split the country into western and eastern factions since 2014.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Qasr al-Akhyar is a coastal town some 73 kilometers east of Tripoli.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Pictures were posted on the internet, and also seen by Reuters, showing the bodies of the migrants lying on the shore, where some were still within black inflatable lifebuoys.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We reported to the Red Crescent to recover the bodies,&#8221; said Ghawil. &#8220;The bodies we found are still intact and we think there are more bodies to wash ashore.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Earlier this month, fifty-three migrants, including two babies, were dead or missing after a rubber boat carrying 55 people capsized off the coast of Zuwara town in western Tripoli, the International Organization for Migration said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Last week, a United Nations report said migrants in Libya, including young girls, are at risk of being killed, tortured, raped or put into domestic slavery, calling for a moratorium on the return of migrant boats to the country until human rights are ensured.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14442,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-24067","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ghawil said the bodies are all dark-skinned people.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Ghawil said the bodies are all dark-skinned people.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26863,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24067\/revisions\/26863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}