Yesterday 93 people\u00a0disembarked\u00a0 in Pozzallo ( 86 of them were from Eritrea and 7 from other sub \u2013Saharan\u00a0\u00a0countries. Among these, there were 12 minors and 18 women one of whom was five-month pregnant.<\/p>\n
It has been reported that people from Eritrea have been\u00a0hold in a big warehouse, where more than thousand people\u00a0\u00a0were forced to live in desperate inhuman conditions and\u00a0\u00a0were tortured and then, more than two hundred\u00a0\u00a0were gathered at a\u00a0connection area, before the dramatic trip by sea. The testimonies said had been spent longer than one month and half in a semi-open place where, as a 23-year old woman says, \u201c we had to dig holes in the ground\u00a0\u00a0to find shelter \u2026. Some people died there, among us and excrements\u201d, before embarking in a precarious vessel. A trip payed about $1,500 to cross the sea.<\/p>\n
In addition, other two out of seven migrants coming from sub- Saharan Africa reported to have been detained in informal and formal prisons in Libya. A 26-year-old from Gambia said to have been imprisoned for more than one month in Ossama prison: \u201c when The U.N aid arrived the Libyans threw away the sticks and torture tools \u2026 for some days it went well\u201d<\/p>\n
A lot of people were found in a state of weakness and malnutrition, in some cases severe physical depletion due to the inhumane conditions of the detention experienced in Libya. Five people were taken to hospital. Among them a 22-year-old guy sadly died last night due to cachexia at the hospital in Modica<\/p>\n