8 immigrants suffocate to death in a truck container in Libya

8 illegal migrants, including six children, were found dead on Monday after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a lorry container on the west Libyan coast, the Libyan Navy said.

90 ,ore immigrants, who were recovered from the container, were in critical condition and had been taken to a local hospital for treatment, the security directorate in Zuwara said in a statement.

The migrants were from various sub-Saharan African and Arab countries, as well as Pakistan and Bangladesh, the statement said.

They had been shut inside a refrigerated container designed for transporting meat or fish which was found just outside Zuwara, close to the Mellitah oil and gas complex.

Zuwara is about 110km (68 miles) from the capital, Tripoli.