Thousands of Asian migrant workers have been left to ‘fend for themselves’ in riot-hit Libya after their employers abandoned them. Many of these workers work as unskilled labourers in the construction sector…Kabir, who was working for a foreign engineering firm 400km outside Benghazi, was told that he would have to ‘find his own way out of the country’. He was part of a group of 17 left in the desert, which later split up…Migrant workers who have been abandoned by their embassies and employers have also been unable to get any help from the employment brokers who brought them into the country.