{"id":32378,"date":"2026-04-18T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32378"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:44:26","slug":"libya-recovers-17-bodies-believed-to-be-migrants-on-tripoli-coast","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/libya-recovers-17-bodies-believed-to-be-migrants-on-tripoli-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya recovers 17 bodies believed to be migrants on Tripoli coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 bodies believed to be those of migrants have \u200bbeen recovered in recent days from \u200cthe shore near a coastal town west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli-based medics said this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Emergency Medicine and Support \u200bCenter, which operates under the health ministry, \u2060said the bodies were recovered from \u200bthe shores of Zuwara, some 117 km (72.7 \u200bmiles) to the west of Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 14 bodies have been buried according to protocols, \u200bthe centre said, and one body \u200bof a Bangladeshi national was identified and received \u200cby \u2060his family in Tripoli. No further details were provided on the remaining two bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Images posted on the centre\u2019s verified Facebook page \u200bshowed medics \u200bplacing bodies \u2060in white plastic bags before loading them into ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has \u200bbecome a transit route for \u200bmigrants \u2060fleeing conflict and poverty to Europe via dangerous routes across the desert and over \u2060the \u200bMediterranean since the toppling \u200bof Muammar Gaddafi in a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-backed uprising in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuers&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-32378","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A total of 14 bodies have been buried according to protocols.","published_date":"","news_description":"A total of 14 bodies have been buried according to protocols.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32378","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\/32378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32379,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32378\/revisions\/32379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}