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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Jack Jeffery

Tunisia and Libya take 276 migrants stranded in desert border region, bring them to shelters

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Tunisia and Libya took back 276 sub-Saharan migrants stranded in a desert region along the border between the two countries and brought them to shelters on Thursday.

Tunisia has been blamed for dumping the migrants in the sizzling heat in the no-man's land near the border post of Ras Jedir. Libya said Wednesday that 27 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were found dead by Libyan authorities in the western desert near the Tunisian border.

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