PHOTOS: More Nigerians return from Libya
06 December 2017 |
3:15 pm
150 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya on December 5 after being stranded in the volatile North African country en route Europe. African heads of state have in recent days condemned the treatment of migrants in Libya, including widespread violence and apparent slave trading. See the gallery above for pictures of the returnees as they arrived…
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A mother with her children alights a chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
State officials screen 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
A returnee tries to feed a child after leaving chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
Returnees queue to be attended to by state officials after alighting from chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
A mother leaves a chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
A sick returnee sits in an ambulance from a chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
Truck carries luggage of 150 migrants who arived from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
Returnees queue to be attended to by state officials after alighting from chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
Returnees alight from a chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI
150 Nigerians voluntarily returned from Libya on December 5 after being stranded in the volatile North African country en route Europe.
African heads of state have in recent days condemned the treatment of migrants in Libya, including widespread violence and apparent slave trading.
See the gallery above for pictures of the returnees as they arrived Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
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