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Archive Home > 2011 > March > 02 > Evacuees trapped at border

Evacuees trapped at border

By Anthony Faiola / The Bulletin
March 2, 2011

TUNIS — The violence in Libya threatened to turn into a humanitarian crisis on Tuesday as thousands of people fleeing into Tunisia were overwhelming relief efforts, creating a bottleneck of evacuees stranded on the Libyan side of the border.

U.N. officials moved to erect a tent city to shelter....

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