Nigeria captures 17 Libya-bound trafficking casualties

Such casualties are regularly made to experience voodoo ceremonies compelling them to pledge never to uncover their circumstance to the powers. The casualties - 10 ladies and seven men matured somewhere around 18 and 40 - were caught on February 14 and 21, Alfa said.

Movement authorities have captured 17 Nigerians endeavoring to cross the fringe into Niger on their approach to Libya with no legitimate papers, a senior Nigerian migration official said.

Nigerian Immigration officers captured the 17 in two groups at a fringe crossing with Niger, said the controller of movement for Katsina state, Ahmed Alhaji Alfa.