{"id":236701,"date":"2026-06-18T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/north-africa-libya-recovers-15-bodies-of-migrants-east-of-capital-tripoli\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:17:10","slug":"north-africa-libya-recovers-15-bodies-of-migrants-east-of-capital-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/north-africa-libya-recovers-15-bodies-of-migrants-east-of-capital-tripoli\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: Libya Recovers 15 Bodies of Migrants East of Capital Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The bodies of at least 15 migrants have washed ashore in Libya in a coastal city east of the capital, Tripoli-based medics said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Emergency Medicine and Support Centre, which operates under the health ministry, \u2060said the bodies washed up in Khumas city, some 118 km (73 miles) east of Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The centre said all the bodies have been buried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Pictures were posted by the centre on its Facebook page showing their medics wearing \u2060white hazmat suits carrying bodies in black and white&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606180416.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of at least 15 migrants have washed ashore in Libya in a coastal city east of the capital, Tripoli-based medics said on Monday. The Emergency Medicine and Support Centre, which operates under the health ministry, \u2060said the bodies washed up in Khumas city, some 118 km (73 miles) east of Tripoli. The centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,9428,6959,6719,4711,892,6928,257,6732,10941,254,897],"class_list":["post-236701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bodies","tag-capital","tag-east","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-north","tag-recovers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}