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CAIRO, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Foreign Ministry is following up the issue of the 19 people believed to be Egyptians who were found dead in a desert area in northeastern Libya, the ministry's spokesman said in a statement on Saturday.
"The Egyptian embassy in Tripoli, currently operating from Cairo, was informed by its sources at the Libyan Red Crescent that the dead bodies of about 19 persons were found in the Libyan desert area between Tobruk and Ajdabiya," Foreign Ministry's spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said in the statement.
He added that the identities of only seven of them have been verified, noting they most likely have been killed by smugglers during an illegal immigration attempt.
