According to Reuters news agency, the UN report confirmed that some 140 migrants from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia escaped from traffickers who have been holding them near the Libyan city of Beni Walid for the past week.
The report pointed out that traffickers opened fire on migrants in an attempt to prevent them from escaping, injuring about 10 of them.
Beni Walid is located 145 kilometres south of Tripoli, the city has become a major center for the trafficking of migrants arriving from sub-Saharan Africa in an attempt to reach the Libyan coast and cross the Mediterranean on a dangerous journey, hoping to reach Europe.
It is noteworthy that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) confirmed that trafficking in human beings is practiced in 106 countries, where human trafficking is for sexual exploitation, forced labour and begging are the most common practices. More than a third of the estimated 21 million victims worldwide are children, according to the ILO.
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