The Mayor of the Municipality of Sirte, Mukhtar Al-Madani condemned on Sunday the airstrikes conducted by Haftar’s forces on several areas in the city, including Al-Qardabiya Project and the Man-Made River Project.

The member of Murzuq municipality Mohammed Omar said a warplane for Khalifa Haftar’s forces struck Saturday afternoon Murzuq in southern Libya twice.

The Ministry of Local Government disclosed that it has agreed with dignitaries from different regions on the need to find a solution to Murzuq’s dispute.

The mayor of Gharyan Yousif Bdairi said the municipal council has told the Presidential Council’s Head Fayez Al-Sirraj urging him to announce the city a disaster area after the forces of Khalifa Haftar seized on April 04.

Libya held on Saturday municipal elections in nine areas where turnout in the country’s first voting for five years reached only about 38%.

The security services in Murzuq, southern Libya, have found mass graves in the outskirts of the city containing around 17 bodies of Tabu tribesmen.

The head of the Central Committee for Municipal Elections, Salim bin Tahia, reaffirmed the committee’s readiness for the electoral process for the first and second groups by the end of March.

A member of the Municipal Council of Murzuk, Mohamed Omar said that the airstrikes launched by Haftar’s forces on the city of Murzuk had targeted a building set for occasions and another for teaching the Holy Quran.

At least 69 municipal councils out of 120 in Libya may not hold elections in March due to a lack of funding by the UN-backed government, the head of the elections committee said.

The Municipal Council of Tarhouna announced the resumption of work in all sectors, departments and government offices, as well as resuming classes, starting from Monday.