Libya Shipwreck Victims, mostly Eritreans, buried anonymous in a war zone
31 July 2019
Libyan authorities on Sunday have buried the bodies, mostly Eritrean refugees, who had drowned last week, 25 July, 2019, at sea in one of deadliest incidents in the Mediterranean so far this year.
Funeral in a war zone
Libyan navy spokesman General Ayoub Kacem said that most of the rescued migrants were from Eritrea, while Palestinians and Sudanese were also among the group waiting to be taken on to reception centers. Seven of the migrants rescued from the wreckage were reported as assisting with the funerals over the weekend.
"We were saved and here we are today to bury 46 of our brothers, children and women," Anwar, a young Eritrean survivor of the tragedy, told AFP.
Authorities on Saturday took a first attempt at transporting the bodies to a cemetery in Tripoli's eastern suburb of Tajoura, but ongoing fighting in the area forced the convoy to turn back.
They succeeded a day later, reaching a small plot of land surrounded reserved for burying the bodies of migrants that have perished at sea. Many of the graves found there bear numbers instead of names on them, as the identities of the dead migrants often remain uncertain. INFOMIGRANTS
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