TRIPOLI- Libya has rescued 132 would-be African migrants off its west coast before heading for Europe on board rubber boats, Al Wasit website reported quoting a statement by the Libyan coast guard.
The Libyan coast guard regularly carry out rescue operations as part of humanitarian and legal efforts to safeguard and secure the lives of illegal migrants who sneak through the Libyan coasts to cross the sea to Europe.
A boat belonging to the Libyan coast guard moved the migrants to a Tripoli base ahead of handing them over to the department of combating illegal immigration.
Migrants intercepted off the Libyan coast object to being returned to the country, preferring to wait for humanitarian rescue ships.
Despite unabated violence in Libya since the fall of Moamer Kadhafi’s regime in 2011, the country remains an important transit point for migrants fleeing instability in other parts of Africa and the Middle East and seeking to reach Europe.
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