Some 50 migrants wounded by clash inside detention centre in Libya-UN


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  • Saturday, 09 Mar 2019

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least 50 migrants were reportedly injured after they staged a protest that was suppressed inside a detention centre in the capital Tripoli, the United Nations said on Friday.

The protest had been "driven by frustration and anxiety" as the migrants had been held for months "in extremely dire conditions," the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said.

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