Al Fasher , August 6(Darfur24)The Ambulance and Emergency Department in the Libyan city of Kufra, bordering Sudan, announced the death of 7 Sudanese refugees and the injury of 32 others on Monday when a car carrying Sudanese refugees overturned deep in the Libyan desert.
The Ambulance Department said it received a notification of a Tundra overturning deep in the Libyan desert, 120 km south of Kufra, which prompted it to deploy three ambulances to transport them to the city and receive treatment. Among the refugees, there were 7 deaths and 32 injuries, some of whom were in critical condition and required urgent surgical intervention.
The Illegal Immigration Agency in Kufra city said that it received an urgent and urgent report from the branch of the Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency in the southeast about an encounter between a force affiliated with the agency heading to the Al-Uwaynat land port with “3” Toyota Tundra cars carrying a large number of refugees from Sudan, 120 km from the Libyan city of Kufra.
The Libyan Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency said in a press release on its Facebook page, which “Darfur 24” reviewed, that one of these cars overturned, driven by a Sudanese person, and there were a number of wounded and dead people inside, while the driver of the second car dropped the refugees in the middle of the desert and escaped, and the third car escaped with the refugees.
It stated that it immediately requested support and assistance from the agency branch and the patrols of the Subul Al-Salam Force Battalion, where they were able to rescue a large number of refugees exceeding 100 people, and 3 emergency ambulances with a medical crew were directed deep into the southern desert.
A refugee in Kufra told Darfur24 that 6 incidents had occurred this year, resulting in the death and injury of dozens, including children.
Last week, the Sudanese authorities issued an order to stop travel from the Khanaq area to the border triangle between Sudan, Libya and Egypt.
The decision directed the owners of travel deportations to stop travel from the Khanaq area to the triangle until further notice, and anyone who violates this will be subject to legal accountability.
According to informed sources, the decision to stop travel was made to stop the ongoing asylum operations towards Libya and the overcrowding of the triangle with citizens in miserable conditions without shelter, food or medicine, and the spread of diseases, thefts and negative phenomena such as drugs and the exploitation of citizens by the owners of travel deportations.
The Libyan authorities restricted the movement of Sudanese refugees towards its territory by closing the Al-Uwaynat border crossing between the two countries and deploying dozens of desert patrols and tightening entry procedures by confiscating cars and imposing fines on drivers exceeding 7,000 Libyan dinars, equivalent to 1,000 US dollars.
The battles in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, forced thousands of residents to flee and head to Libya via the El Fasher-Khazan Jadid road in East Darfur State, heading towards the city of Ad-Dabba in the Northern State, and traveling to the border triangle to reach Kufra, Libya.
In limited press statements, the mayor of the Libyan Kufra, Abdulrahman Arqoub, said that the municipality receives more than 1,500 Sudanese refugees daily.
Last June, the UNHCR Libya office announced the registration of 40,000 Sudanese refugees.