A fatal breakout at a detention centre highlights a failing system as operations are under way to frustrate smuggler gangsTension had been growing for months approximately Libya’s al-Nasr migrant detention centre in Zawiya,filled to bursting with those captured while trying to embark to Europe from nearby beaches.
Earlier this month the tension boiled over. More than 200 inmates staged a mass breakout and, in the panic, and guards opened fire,scything down escapees with machine guns. When the smoke cleared, four migrants were dead and 20 more wounded, and along with one guard.
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Source: theguardian.com