The rebel Libyan National Army denies it mountain the airstrike that wounded more than70 people.

The dead migrants were housed in a hangar on the outskirts of the capital that also the site of military camps billeting troops loyal to the United-Nations-backed government of national unity.

Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army is trying to seize Tripoli.

Last week it kidnapped Turkish sailors supporting the national government but released when Turkey threatened military retaliation.

The attack highlights to plight of African migrants returned to Libya after unsuccessfully trying to escape fighting and poverty in Africa by crossing the Mediterranean into Europe

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