The country’s attorney general said the bodies of at least 28 migrants were recovered from a large grave in the desert in southeast Libya.
A few days after another large-scale grave with 19 bodies was found on a farm in the same city.
Officials discovered the latest graves after raids at human trafficking sites, and authorities released 76 detained and tortured immigrants, the Attorney General’s Office posted on Facebook.
It added that one Libya and two foreigners were arrested.
“There is a gang whose members deliberately deprived the freedom of illegal immigrants, tortured them, and brought them to cruel, humiliating and inhumane treatment,” the statement said.
Images shared online – images that the BBC has not yet independently verified – show police and volunteers digging on the beach before putting the body in a black bag.
Search in Kufra – More than 1,700 km (1,056 miles) from Libya’s Capital Tripoli.
The attorney general said the recovered body had been autopsy and investigators suspected of contact with the smuggling network. Authorities are recording survivor testimony.
last year, Large-scale graves contain the bodies of at least 65 immigrants Discovered in southwestern Libya. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) described it as “very shocking” at the time.
Since the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the country has become a key transit route for dangerous deserts and cross-country migration to Europe.
UNICEF says In 2024, more than 2,200 people died or disappeared in the Mediterranean.