The United Nations said on Friday that 138 Nigerian illegal immigrants in Libya have been repatriated.
A total of "138 stranded Nigerian migrants received Thursday voluntary humanitarian return assistance home, 70 of whom were previously at the detention centers of Trig al Seka and Tajoura," said UN Support Mission in Libya.
The migrants returned home within a program of the International Organization for Migration, the mission added.
Libya is a preferred point of departure for illegal immigrants hoping to cross the Mediterranean into Europe because of insecurity and chaos in the country following the 2011 uprising that toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
SOURCE: Xinhua
