A motorist was apprehended on Tuesday by Libyan authorities in the Bishr district for trying to smuggle six Nigerian women without documentation.
Migrant Rescue Watch, a migrant monitoring NGO, announced this in a post on its official X handle on Wednesday.
According to the post, the nabbed driver, who in a bid to avoid arrest, claimed during a routine police check, that the women were family members.
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However, officials saw through the ploy and arrested both the driver and the six women.
The statement said, “Libya 05.08.24 – Police patrols arrested in the Bishr area of a Libyan driver for an attempted smuggling of 6 undocumented female #migrants of Nigerian nationality.
“The driver claimed that the female passengers were his family. All transferred to the Bishr Police Dept. for legal action.”
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