By Ajnadin Mustafa.
Tripoli, 8 September 2015:
Libyan coastguards today said they rescued 121 migrants whose rubber dinghy boat had broken down and . . .[restrict]was drifting some 10 kilometres off Garabulli.
It is the second rescue in the area in less than a week. On Thursday, the coast guard saved 104 migrants whose boat got into difficulties.
The town, some 60 kilometres east of Tripoli, is one of the major western Libya migrant ports of departure.
Today’s migrants, many of them believed to be from Syria but also including Africans, included 10 women and a child. They were taken to a migrant detention centre in Tripoli.
In a separate development yesterday, 168 illegal immigrant, mostly Sudanese and Egyptians, were detained south of Tobruk trying to enter Libya. [/restrict]
