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Libya air raid kills 7 including Bangladeshi: ministry
TRIPOLI, Nov 18, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – At least seven civilians, including a Bangladesh national, were killed and 30 injured in an air strike Monday that hit a biscuit factory in southern Tripoli, Libya’s health ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Amin al-Hachemi told AFP that two Libyans and nationals from Bangladesh, Egypt and Niger died when the factory in Wadi Rabi, a suburb at the centre of fighting for control of the capital, took a direct hit.
The suburb has been at the centre of an assault launched in April by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s forces to wrest control of the capital from fighters loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA).
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