TRIPOLI, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Libyan Forensic Police announced on Saturday the recovery of 59 unidentified bodies in the southeastern city of Kufra.

"The Forensic Police team has so far recovered approximately 59 bodies, as part of humanitarian and legal procedures for investigation and documentation operations," the police said in a statement, without revealing the identities of the victims.

In a separate statement released on Friday, the Attorney General's office said 58 bodies of migrants were recovered in Kufra.

Police in Libya's central Jufra district announced on Saturday the arrest of three members of a criminal gang accused of kidnapping and torturing migrants.

The Attorney General's office announced on Feb. 9 that security services in Kufra had freed 76 migrants detained by a criminal gang, and recovered 28 bodies of migrants buried near the detention site.

Because of the insecurity and chaos in the country since the fall of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, many migrants, mostly Africans, chose to cross the Mediterranean to Europe from Libya. Enditem

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