GENEVA – Some 10,000 Libyans have fled in the last 10 days from the besieged Western Mountains region to Tunisia, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday. “UNHCR is seeing a growing number of Libyan refugees arriving in Tunisia from Libya’s Western Mountains regions,” said Andrej Mahecic, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. “This past weekend, some 6,000 Libyan nationals arrived in the Dehiba area of southern Tunisia. Overall, we estimate that 10,000 Libyans have crossed into this area over the past 10 days,” he added.
