10 missing Egyptians rescued in Libya desert

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday the rescue of ten out of 60 nationals who went missing in the Libyan desert after entering the western neighbor illegally on October 15. In a press briefing Wednesday evening, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bader Abdel-Atti said that the Libyan security has rescued nine of the missing Egyptians and handed them to the illegal migration center in Al-Baydaa City, east of Libya. A day earlier, Libyan authorities have also recued a tenth and founded bodies of two others of the same missed group, he added. Abdel-Atti revealed that two out of another group of twelve Egyptians who also infiltrated into Libya were injured after coming under Libyan fire and they are now receiving treatment at a Libyan hospital. He underlined that the Foreign Ministry is touch with the Libyan authorities to follow up the efforts exerted to the find the remaining missing nationals. Abdel-Atti concluded that the Ministry urges all Egyptians to pursue legal means to get entry visa to Libya and to avoid illegal ways that endangers their lives. Source: KUNA