Migrants: UNHCR, urgent investigation to shoot in Libya

(ANSA) - TUNISI, JULY 28 - "The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) deplores the tragic loss of human lives and asks for an urgent investigation into the shooting that took place at the Al Khums landing point in Libya last night, at following the interception of a vessel by the Libyan Coast Guard ". We read it in a note from UNHCR. "This incident strongly underlines that Libianon is a safe harbor for landing," said VincentCochetel, UNHCR special envoy for the situation in the central Mediterranean. "It is necessary to increase search and rescue capacity in the Mediterranean, including NGO ships, in order to increase the likelihood of life-saving operations leading to landings in safe ports outside of Libya. Greater solidarity between the coastal states of the Mediterranean is also needed," he said. added Cochetel. "Levitimes are all Sudanese citizens. The rest of the landed people have been transferred to a detention center" (ANSA).