The Air Force of Khalifa Haftar’s forces said it had carried out airstrikes on Misrata’s air college early on Tuesday, hitting a military cargo plane laden with ammunition.
The Libyan coastguards have intercepted 122 Europe-bound illegal migrants off the country’s Mediterranean coast in recent days.
The UN Security Council reaffirmed Monday the call on all Libyan parties to commit to a ceasefire and rapidly to return to a UN-mediated political process.
Tunisia’s defence ministry said Monday it had prevented 53 Ivorian and Sudanese citizens from illegally entering the country, a move condemned by NGOs as a violation of rights.
The EU delegation to Libya issued a statement for its spokesperson saying the airstrike in Libya’s Murzuq had claimed the lives of civilians in southern Libya, a region that is already paying a heavy price for the inability of the warring parties to end the crisis.
The Interior Minister of the Interim Government of eastern Libya Ibrahim Bushanaf has accused “terrorist groups” and “sleeper cells” of kidnapping the member of the House of Representatives (HoR) Siham Sergiwa, adding that the case is still under investigation.
Marsad Libya Libyan Security Sector Observatory