At least 44 dead, 130 wounded in strike on migrant centre in Libya

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TRIPOLI - At least 44 people were killed and more than 130 wounded in an air strike on a migrant detention centre in the Libyan capital Tripoli, the U.N. mission to the country said on Wednesday.

U.N. Libya envoy Ghassan Salame condemned the attack, saying in a statement that the strike “clearly amounts to the level of a war crime”.

The UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, called for an investigation into the deadly attack on the Tripoli migrant detention centre.

It said that the incident shows need to halt the detention of migrants and forced returns of rescuees to Libya. 

UNHCR spokesman Charlie Yaxley had said earlier it could not confirm who launched the attack on the centre which held some 600 people, but that medical teams were on the ground.

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