Tripoli - MENA
An illegal Egyptian migrant was killed in a shootout between armed human traffickers and a Libyan army patrol northeast Libya. Two of the patrolmen from the Omar Al-Mokhtar Battalion were injured, one seriously, in the exchange of fire in Al-Jaghboub area near Al-Batnan town. The patrol was ambushed by the human trafficking gang after it caught 50 illegal Egyptian and Eritrean migrants and while it was escorting them to be delivered to the authorities concerned