2014-07-28 10:40:00

Libyan clash kills 36 people


At least 36 people were killed at the weekend in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi in clashes between Libyan Special Forces and Islamist militants.

In the capital, Tripoli, 23 people, all Egyptian workers, were killed when a rocket hit their home on Saturday during fighting between rival militias battling over the city's main airport.

On Sunday, rocket fire ignited a huge fire as fuel storage tanks that supply Tripoli were hit near the international airport.

The United States evacuated its embassy in Tripoli on Saturday, driving diplomats across the border into Tunisia under heavy military protection because of clashes near the embassy compound.

A British embassy convoy was hit by gunfire during an attempted hijacking outside Tripoli on the way to the Tunisian border, but no-one was injured in the incident.

Government sources say more than 150 people have died, many of them civilians, in the capital Tripoli and in Benghazi in two weeks of fighting.  








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