Rights group urges Libya's GNA to investigate 338 missing in Tarhuna

More than 300 residents of the Libyan town of Tarhuna have been abducted or reported missing since the start of the country’s civil war, a prominent rights group said in a report Thursday that called on authorities in Tripoli to investigate the disappearances.

Since the Kaniyat militia took control of the western Libyan city of Tarhuna in 2015, at least 388 people have been reported missing. Family members who spoke with the New York-based Human Rights Watch all alleged that the Kaniyat armed group was behind the disappearances of their relatives.