Fleeing Libya: Refugees face peril

Men, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, line up as they wait to board buses to be repatriated in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. More than 250,000 migrant workers have left Libya for neighboring countries, primarily Tunisia and Egypt, in the past three weeks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

epa02646781 A migrant worker from Ghana, who fled the unrest in Libya, carries her baby and belongings as they arrive in a refugee camp in Tunisia, several kilometers from the border crossing at Ras Jdir, Tunisia, 21 March 2011. United Nations officials on 21 March reported a decline in the number of people trying to flee Libya since air strikes by international forces started on 19 March, when more than 317,605 people had fled Libya, mainly to Egypt and Tunisia. EPA/LAURA LEON GOMEZ

Men, who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, are seen next to their tents in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Saturday, March 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A stranded foreign refugee reacts after being informed that his name is not on the passengers list as a ship evacuating wounded Libyans and refugees fleeing conflict zone is scheduled to leave the port of Misrata, Libya Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Inside the besieged city of Misrata, spent rockets protrude from the pavement of a parking lot, unarmed teenagers prepare plastic crates of Molotov cocktails, and fighters at roadblocks sit inside empty shipping containers outfitted with furniture, carpets and generator-powered TVs and watch Al-Jazeera reports of their war with Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

A man from Ghana, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, walks alongside a road after crossing from Libya at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Saturday, March 19, 2011. More than 250,000 migrant workers have left Libya for neighboring countries, primarily Tunisia and Egypt, in the past three weeks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

African migrants and refugees ride in trucks on April 27, 2011 on their way to be evacuated by an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) ship to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, from their camp near the port of Misrata, which was shelled a day earlier by Moamer Kadhafi's forces. AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOPHE SIMON (Photo credit should read CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images)

Fleeing migrants and Libyans are seen on board an International Organisation of Migration ship leaving the port in the restive city of Misrata on May 4, 2011, as Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's forces pounded the city. AFP PHOTO/CHRISTOPHE SIMON (Photo credit should read CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/Getty Images)

BENGHAZI, LIBYA - APRIL 15: Children wait with their mother to disembark a ship that evacuated them from the besieged city of Misrata April 15, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Nearly 1,200 Asian and African migrants escaped from war-torn Misrata today, evacuated by international aid organizations aboard a chartered Greek vessel for the relative safety of Benghazi in Libya's rebel-held east. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY W.G. DUNLOP (FILES) -- A picture dated April 13, 2011 shows rescuers helping people in the sea after a boat carrying some 250 migrants and coming from Libya crashed into rocks as they tried to enter the port of Pantelleria, an island off the southern coast of Italy. Libya's civil war, resulting security lapses and complicit security forces have paved the way for African migrants to make often-deadly boat trips to Italy, a social worker and migrant workers say. AFP PHOTO/FRANCESCO MALAVOLTA ==ITALY OUT== (Photo credit should read FRANCESCO MALAVOLTA/AFP/Getty Images)

A Libyan woman evacuated from the besieged city of Misrata weeps as she disembarks from the Turkish ship Ankara upon arrival at Benghazi port on April 21, 2011. At least 1,400 civilians fled Misrata onboard Ankara, feeling vicious combat between rebels and forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi. AFP PHOTO/MARWAN NAAMANI (Photo credit should read MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)

Egyptians try to board a bus as a Tunisian Army soldier tries to stop one of them, at the Tunisia-Libya border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia on March. 3.

A rebel fighter (R) hugs a refugee fleeing unrest in Libya at the southern Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Dehiba April 22, 2011. Thousands of people have fled worsening violence in Libya's Western Mountains region over the last week through the border crossing near the southern Tunisian town of Dehiba. The insurgents took control early on Thursday after clashes with government forces. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi (TUNISIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

SALLUM, EGYPT - MARCH 17: Rohan Muhammed waits in her car with luggage on the roof after her and her family cleared customs to enter Egypt at the Libyan/Egyptian border crossing on March 17, 2011 in Sallum, Egypt. The family left their home in Benghazi, Libya because of the fighting that is nearing that area. Opposition forces have been losing ground as government troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi press a counter-offensive to the east. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

epa02723110 Italian coastguards help Libyan refugees arrive on the island of Lampedusa, Italy in the early hours of 08 May 2011. Coast guard officials said one vessel with more than 500 people on board were rescue and carry into the harbour. EPA/FRANCESCO MALAVOLTA

Italian Police and Guardia Costiera (Coast Guard) officers carry an injured refugee as he arrives on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa April 6, 2011. More than 130 people were missing and at least 15 appeared to be dead after a boat carrying Eritrean and Somali refugees from Libya capsized south of Sicily early on Wednesday, coast guard officials said. Rescuers picked up 47 people, including a number of women and children, after the boat, which left Libya two days ago, sank at about 4:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) 40 miles (64 km) south of the island of Lampedusa. REUTERS/Vincenzo Tersigni/EIDON (ITALY - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY DISASTER IMAGES OF THE DAY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - MARCH 29: Illegal immigrants from North Africa line up for food and water distribution March 29, 2011 on Lampedusa island, southernmost Italy. Some 18,000 North African immigrants, mainly from unrest-torn Libya and Tunisia, have been flooding the small Italian island of Lampedusa, which is only 110 km away from Africa. More immigrants are expected to land here as the Libyan crisis deepens. Italy will send more ships with a total capacity of 10,000 berths to evacuate migrants on Lampedusa starting from Wednesday. (Photo by XINHUA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images )

Libyan children attend classes in a tent at a refugee camp in Dehiba in southern Tunisia May 23, 2011. An estimated 20,000 Libyan refugees have found shelter in Dehiba, a border town of 5,000, some in camps, most in the homes of strangers. Aid groups believe about 40,000 in total have fled into Tunisia's Tataouine province. Picture taken May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Anis Mili (TUNISIA - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS CONFLICT)

RAS JDIR, TUNISIA - FEBRUARY 28: Men reach for bread behind barbed wire while waiting to enter Tunisia after fleeing Libya on February 28, 2011 in Ras Jdir, Tunisia. As fighting continues in and around the Libyan capital of Tripoli, tens of thousands of guest workers from Egypt, Tunisia and other countries are fleeing to the border of Tunisia to escape the violence. The situation is quickly turning into a humanitarian emergency as fledgling Tunisia is overwhelmed with the migrant workers. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to fight to the end. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A Libyan refugee who fled the unrest in Libya stands outside her tent at a refugee camp in Dehiba, near the southern Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Wazin, May 9, 2011. An estimated 20,000 refugees have found shelter in Dehiba, a border town of 5,000, some in camps, most in the homes of strangers. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (TUNISIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY)

An ophthalmologist examines the eyes of a Libyan refugee in a makeshift hospital tent at a refugee camp in Tataouine June 3, 2011. REUTERS/Anis mili (TUNISIA - Tags: HEALTH CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

epa02633980 A Bangladeshi migrant worker who fled the conflict in Libya reaches out to catch his passport as it is returned on 14 March 2011 in the Tunisian transit camp situated several kilometers from the Ras Jdir border crossing with Libya. Each Bangladeshi migrant worker who receives his passport back moves to the next stage, which is to get on a bus to move to the airport in Djerba and be repatriated to Dakka. EPA/CIRO FUSCO

DJERBA, TUNISIA - MARCH 17: Displaced people sleep on the floor in the international departure lounge at Djerba airport on March 17, 2011 in Djerba, Tunisia. As the fighting continues in Libya, tens of thousands of guest workers including men, women and children from Egypt, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Sudan and other countries continue to flee to the border of Tunisia. The situation has turned into a humanitarian emergency as Tunisia is overwhelmed with the workers. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to fight to the end. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

A clown performs to entertain people near to a refugee camp set up for displaced people who recently crossed over the border from into Tunisia, fleeing from the unrest in the Libya, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Sunday, March 20, 2011. More than 250,000 migrant workers have left Libya for neighboring countries, primarily Tunisia and Egypt, in the past three weeks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Men from Sudan, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, are seen behind a fence as they wait news regarding their repatriation after crossing from Libya in a refugee camp near the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

The body of a drowned refugee floats near a capsized ship that originated from Libya and which according to the United Nations refugee agency was transporting an estimated 850 refugees, approximately 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of the Tunisian islands of Kerkennah, Saturday, June 4, 2011. The Geneva-based agency said Friday at least 578 of the estimated 850 people on board, mostly from West Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh, survived the Wednesday sinking, making it one of the worst and deadliest incidents in the Mediterranean so far this year. (AP Photo/Lindsay Mackenzie)

Ukrainian Navy sailors welcome refugees from Libya in Sevastopol, on Monday, April 11, 2011. Ukrainian Navy ship \"Konstantin Olshansky\" arrived in Sevastopol with 113 refugees from Libya on board, 85 ethnic Ukrainians among them. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)

REFILE - CORRECTING SPELLING OF SHIP NAME A passenger kisses the ground and prays after disembarking from the Ukrainian Navy ship Konstantin Olshanskiy in Valletta's Grand Harbour April 5, 2011. The ship arrived in Malta Tuesday afternoon carrying 193 workers of various nationalities and their families, evacuated from Libya. The workers, including 22 Britons and 20 Americans, were picked up from the Tripoli area, according to local media. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (MALTA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY) MALTA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN MALTA