Tripoli, Feb. 10 -- The Libyan Attorney General's office announced on Sunday that security services in the southeastern city of Kufra had freed 76 migrants detained by a criminal gang, and recovered 28 bodies of migrants buried near the detention site.
"The investigation procedures revealed evidence that there was a gang whose members deliberately detained illegal migrants, tortured them, and subjected them to cruel, humiliating, and inhumane treatment," the office said in a statement published on its official Facebook page.
Three members of the criminal gang were arrested, while a search for the remaining members is underway, the statement added.
On Jan. 29, the Attorney General's office announced the release of 263 migrants held cap...