Migrant workers flee Libya – in pictures

Bangladeshi migrant workers wait at the Ras Jdir crossing on the Libya/Tunisia border Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

A Bangladeshi worker, who had been waiting to leave Libya for more than six days, walks beside the water in the eastern port of Benghazi Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

A Tunisian woman carries her bags at the Ras Jdir border post between Libya and Tunisia Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images

An Egyptian man sits on a bus at the Ras Jdir border post near the Tunisian city of Ben Gherdane Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

An Egyptian man who fled Libya several days earlier sits on his luggage at Ddjerba airport in Tunisia on his way back to Egypt Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

Bangladeshi migrant workers fleeing the unrest in Libya wait by the Tunisian gate at the Ras Jdir border crossing Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

Bangladeshi workers wait in Benghazi to be evacuated from Libya Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

Egyptian workers drink tea while others line up for food at the Ras Jdir border crossing Photograph: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

Egyptian migrant workers wait at a makeshift camp at Tripoli airport Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Egyptians who fled Libya to Tunisia leave the Echoucha refugee camp by bus Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

Egyptians carry their belongings at a military field hospital run by the Tunisian army at the Ras Jdir border post Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Egyptians board a bus at the Ras Jdir border post Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Indian workers queue in Benghazi to get on a ship leaving for Alexandria, Egypt Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP

Men carry their belongings on their heads at a makeshift camp, mainly occupied by Egyptians, at Tripoli airport Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Migrant workers who recently crossed into Tunisia from Libya line up to receive food and water at a temporary camp in Ras Jdir Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Migrant workers are living in squalid conditions after crossing into Tunisia from Libya in Ras Jdir Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Egyptians carry their belongings as they cross into Tunisia at a military field hospital run by the Tunisian army at the Ras Jdir border post Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Bangladeshi migrant workers at a refugee camp near the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir Photograph: Str/Reuters

A person is helped through a bus window as Egyptian refugees who fled Libya to Tunisia leave the Echoucha camp by bus Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

Migrant workers are living in squalid conditions after crossing into Tunisia from Libya in Ras Jdir Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Refugees from Libya play football at a military field hospital run by the Tunisian army at the Ras Jdir border post, near the Tunisian city of Ben Gherdane Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Vietnameses refugees from Libya wait at the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Niger refugees who fled Libya walk among tents at the Choucha refugee camp Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

A view of the border area where migrant workers are living in squalid conditions after crossing into Tunisia from Libya Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images