10月10日，的黎波里消息：利比亚军方称，军方部队在东南部一座城镇与毒品走私者发生交火，三名士兵受伤，随后缴获了超过130万粒毒品药丸。
TRIPOLI, Oct 10 - Libya's military brigade seized more than 1.3 million narcotic pills after a firefight with smugglers in a southeastern town that injured three soldiers, the military said on Friday.
联合国今年1月指出，这个北非国家已成为合成毒品及其他毒品运往本国及非洲其他地区的重要中转站。
The north African nation has become a major regional transit hub for synthetic drugs and other narcotics en route to domestic users and elsewhere in the continent, the UN said in January.
军方宣传部门发布的公告称，驻扎在距首都的黎波里约1700公里（1000英里）的库夫拉地区的苏布尔·萨拉姆步兵旅，对毒品及违禁品走私犯的藏匿点实施了打击。
In a statement, a military media unit said the Subul al-Salam infantry brigade in Kufra, about 1,700 km (1,000 miles) from the capital, Tripoli, targeted hideouts used by traffickers of narcotics and illicit goods.
随公告一同发布的照片显示，士兵们正围着数十个透明塑料小袋，袋内装满了印有数字“1”以及黑色字样“德国制造”的白色圆形药丸。
Pictures it posted showed soldiers standing around tens of transparent plastic small bags filled with round white pills bearing the number one and a sentence in black that read "made in Germany".
该步兵旅隶属于陆军总参谋部，向利比亚东部“国民军”指挥官哈利法·哈夫塔尔负责。公告中并未提及此次缴获毒品的价值。
The brigade operates under the Land Forces General Staff and owes responsible to the military commander Khalifa Haftar of the eastern-based Libyan National Army. The statement gave no value for the drugs seized.
联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室1月份的报告指出，自2011年起，各类毒品犯罪团伙便利用该国动荡的局势大肆活动。
Drug gangs have exploited the tumultuous situation in the country since 2011, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in a January report.
当年，在北约支持下的起义推翻了穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲的统治，此后利比亚便陷入了长期的内乱与分裂状态。
Libya plunged into a prolonged period of internal conflict and division after former ruler Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in a NATO-backed uprising that year.
10月份，该国总检察长透露，的黎波里西南约160公里（100英里）处的西部山区法院，以进口超过200万粒精神类药物的罪名，判处5名涉案人员死刑。
Five people were handed death sentences by a court in the Western Mountains region, about 160 km (100 miles) southwest of Tripoli, for importing more than 2 million pills of psychotropic substances, the attorney general said in October.