{"id":3519,"date":"2019-07-03T07:29:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"nearly-40-killed-in-air-strike-on-libya-migrant-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/03\/nearly-40-killed-in-air-strike-on-libya-migrant-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 40 Killed In Air Strike On Libya Migrant Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 40\nmigrants were killed in an air strike Tuesday night on their detention centre\nin a Tripoli suburb blamed on Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has been\ntrying for three months to seize the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 70\nwere also wounded in the raid on Tajoura, an emergency services spokesman told\nAFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a\npreliminary assessment and the toll could rise,&#8221; said spokesman Osama Ali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said 120\nmigrants were detained in the hangar which was directly hit by the strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bodies were\nstrewn on the floor of the hangar, mixed with the belongings and blood-soaked\nclothes of migrants, an AFP photographer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rescuers were\nsearching for survivors under the rubble, while dozens of ambulances rushed to\nthe&nbsp;scene. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Scores-killed-in-air-strike-on-Libya-migrant-centre\/1066-5180772-glb9nn\/index.html\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Nearly 40 migrants were killed in an air strike Tuesday night on their detention centre in a Tripoli suburb blamed on Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}