2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike

When

3 Jul 2019

Kind

Military operation

Deaths

53

Coordinates

32.83° N, 13.38° E

Description

2019 airstrike on a migrant center in Libya

Injured

130

Attack in Greater Tripoli, Libya

On 2 July 2019 at 23:30, during the Western Libya campaign, an airstrike hit the Tajoura Detention Center outside Tripoli,Libya, while hundreds of people were inside the facility. The detention center was being used as a holding facility for migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe when a storage hangar that it used as a residential facility was destroyed in an aerial bombing.

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