The authorities say that the bodies of immigrants who recovered in Libya

The country’s public prosecutor said that the bodies of at least 28 migrants had been recovered from a mass grave in a desert in southeastern Libya.

The grave was discovered north of Kufra, just days after another mass grave with 19 bodies on a farm in the same city.

Officials found the last grave in the wake of a raid on a human trafficking site, where the authorities liberated 76 migrants who were arrested and tortured, and the Prosecutor’s Office posted on Facebook.

He added that one Libyan and two foreigners were arrested.

The statement said: “There was a gang deprived of its members of illegal immigrants of their freedom, learning and exposing them to harsh, humiliating and inhuman treatment.”

Common images online – which are not verified independently – show the police and volunteers who dig in the sand before placing the bodies in black bags.

The search in Kufra – more than 1700 km (1056 miles) from Tripoli, the capital of Libya – is continuing.

The prosecutor says that the bodies that were recovered have been taken to dissect the body, as investigators are suspected of links to smuggling networks. The authorities are documenting the certificates of survivors.

Last year, a A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 immigrants It was found in southwestern Libya. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) described it as “very horrific” at the time.

Since the overthrow of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country has become a major way for migrants who risk crossing the dangerous desert and the Mediterranean to reach Europe.

UNICEF said In 2024, the number of people who died or lost in the Mediterranean exceeded an attempt to reach Europe, 2200.