Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, officials said Sunday, in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-stricken North African country.

Some of the bodies of migrants found in two mass graves in Libya bore gunshot wounds, the International Organization for Migration said on Monday, adding that one of the sites is thought to contain up to 70 bodies.

Libya's security authorities have recovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, officials said on Sunday, in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to

Libyan authorities have uncovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in southeastern Libya. The graves, found in Kufra, highlight the continued plight of migrants in this chaotic region. Though not uncommon in Libya,

Libya's security authorities recovered at least 28 bodies of migrants from a mass grave in the desert in southeast Libya, the country's attorney general said on its Facebook page on Sunday.

Libyan security authorities recovered 28 migrant bodies from a desert mass grave near Kufra and freed 76 from forced detention. The ongoing migrant crisis, resulting from post-Gaddafi instability, highlights severe human rights abuses.

Security authorities in Libya have recovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves found in the country's southeastern desert, in the latest tragedy involving people trying to reach Europe. A mass grave containing 28 migrants was discovered in Kufra days after 19 bodies were discovered in a mass grave on a farm in the same city.