(MENAFN) More than 15 people got killed and 25 injured after over 100 migrants and refugees captivated by human traffickers were shot at while escaping from a clandestine prison in northwestern Libya.
According to the international medical organization Medicins Sans Frontiers, many people in the town of Bani Walid including members of security forces, hospital and municipal workers, and elders tried to protect the escapees as they were chased by their captors and armed men attempting to recapture them.
MSF said survivors of Wednesday night's escape reported numerous deaths and up to 40 people, mostly women, were left behind.
MSF staff has helped treat 25 injured people at Bani Walid General Hospital including seven with severe gunshot wounds and multiple fractures.
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