Dozens of migrants held for ransom by criminal gang in Libya released from captivity

Relief in Libya as dozens of migrants kidnapped by a gang of traffickers are freed from captivity. 

More than 100 people, including five women, had been held for ransom in the northeastern town of Ajdabiya.

The country’s attorney general said they’d been trafficked and tortured in a bid to force their families to pay for their release. 

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