Call for US probe over 'shackled' Somali deportees

A US congressman has called for an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of 92 Somalis during a botched deportation.

Keith Ellison, who represents a district in Minnesota state that has the largest Somali-American community, said in a statement that immigration agents shackled the detainees, and withheld food, medicine and sanitation facilities.

Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reports that the the flight carrying the detainees left the US on 7 December but returned to Miami the following day.

It adds that the flight took 40 hours, including a 23-hour stopover in Senegal's capital, Dakar.

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