Migrants rickety boat intercepted off Tripoli shores
the Coast Guard in Tripoli has seized a migrants boat off Al-Garabolli shires near Tripoli as they were bound to Italy.
The head of the Illegal Immigration Fight Authority, Mustafa Edrees, said that there were 115 immigrants onboard all of whom were Malian.
Edrees added that medical teams at the Authority to carry out checks on the migrants and the they will be deported via Mitigate airport in Tripoli in the coming days.
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