International Organization for Migration (IOM) said 361 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya from 6 to 12 August 2023.
In another context, Relatives of people on a boat carrying 110 migrants that went off radar after allegedly being shot at by the Libyan coastguard fear the passengers have been chased all the way to Libya.
Migrant emergency hotline Alarm Phone is claiming the people onboard – who had left from Lebanon – had told the NGO before going missing that they had been shot at and chased by a vessel believed to be from the Libyan coastguard.
