[(Title)] Eight migrants found dead in lorry container in western Libya.

Eight migrants including six children were found dead on Monday after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a lorry container on the west Libyan coast, authorities said.

当局称，包括六名儿童在内的8名移民在周一被利比亚西海岸的一个货车集装箱中的汽油烟雾窒息后被发现死亡。

Another 90 migrants recovered from the container were in critical condition and had been taken to a local hospital for treatment, the security directorate in the town of Zuwara said in a statement.

Zuwara镇的安全理事会在一份声明中说，从集装箱中找到的另外90名移民情况危急，已被送往当地医院接受治疗。

Zuwara is one of the points along Libya's western coastline where smugglers and traffickers hold migrants before putting them on boats to try to cross to Europe.

Zuwara是利比亚西部海岸线沿线入境点之一，在这里走私者和贩运者先将移民押在船上，试图进入欧洲。

The migrants were from various sub-Saharan African and Arab countries, as well as Pakistan and Bangladesh, the statement said.

声明说，移民来自撒哈拉以南非洲和阿拉伯各国，以及巴基斯坦和孟加拉国。

They had been shut inside a refrigerated container designed for transporting meat or fish which was found just outside Zuwara, close to the Mellitah oil and gas complex. Zuwara is about 110km (68 miles) from the capital, Tripoli.

他们被关在靠近梅利塔石油和天然气综合设施的Zuwara外一个冷藏集装箱内，这个集装箱专门用于运送肉类或鱼类，Zuwara距首都的黎波里约1100公里(68英里)。

"As a result of the length of time they were suffocated,eight of them died including six children, one woman and a young man,"  the security directorate said, adding that gallons of petrol had been found in the container.

安全局说：“由于时间过长导致窒息，其中8人死亡，包括6名儿童、1名妇女和1名年轻人，”此外，在容器里发现了几加仑汽油。

It posted pictures of at least nine plastic jerry cans inside the container, as well as a pile of life-jackets apparently intended for use in a boat crossing.

当局贴出了容器内至少九个塑料罐子的图片，以及一堆明显打算用于船渡的救生衣。

Daytime temperatures in northwest Libya have been in the mid to high 30s Celsius in recent days.

近几天，利比亚西北部的白天温度一直保持在摄氏30度左右的高温。

Smugglers and traffickers took advantage of Libya's lawlessness to send hundreds of thousands of migrants to Italy over the past four years, though flows have slowed since last summer due to an Italian-backed crackdown on smuggling networks.

走私者和贩运者利用利比亚的无法无天的力量，在过去的四年中将数十万移民送往意大利，尽管由于意大利支持打击走私网络，自去年夏天以来移民流动已经放缓。