Authorities arrest five people in connection to the death of migrants in Sabratha
The Interior Ministry has opened an investigation into the death of 15 migrants in Sabratha who, according to locals, died in a dispute between two groups of people smugglers.
The Red Crescent of Sabratha branch said on Friday that its team recovered 15 bodies on the city's coast, some burned in a boat and others lying on the beach.
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Abdel Moneim Al-Arabi, said the Sabratha security directorate arrested five Ethiopians believed to have information about the crime.
According to Al-Arabi, six migrants of Bangladeshi nationality survived the incident and received medical treatment.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior, Bashir Al-Amin, directed the immediate investigation and assigned a Sabratha Public Prosecution Office member to open the investigations, Al-Arabi said.
Sabratha Municipality denounced the heinous crime and called on the authorities to assume their responsibilities and prosecute the perpetrators.