Tunisian military forces arrested, on Monday night, six persons of foreign nationalities crossed the Tunisian-Libyan border secretly.

The military units operating in the military buffer, in Ras Jdir, arrested the suspects and refered them later to the national guard in Shousha, the ministry statement said.

Three of the detainees are from Senegal, while two others from Guinea, and the last one from Côte d'Ivoire, as well as they do not carry any identity documents, the statement added.

The number of individuals, who were arrested by the military forces during their passing the border between Tunisia and Libya, have reached  to 23, this month. They are 10 Senegalese, including two girls,  four persons from Guinea, four others from Cote d'Ivoire, two from Gambia,  two from Mali and one from the State of Chad.

Meanwhile, the number of those who arrested by the military forces during crossing the border with Libya secretly, in January, reached to 37 persons, most of them from Senegal.