An aircraft from Libyan forces controlling Tripoli crashed
near the Tunisian border and may have been shot down, Tunisia's state news
agency TAP reported on Friday. The aircraft went down 5 kilometers from the
frontier inside Libya, TAP said, but did not provide any further details.
Libyan officials did not immediately confirm the incident.
Libya is embroiled in a battle between two rival governments and their armed
forces; one an internationally recognized administration operating out of the
east of the country, and the other, a faction that took over the capital
Tripoli in the summer. The forces allied with Prime Minister Abdullah
al-Thinni's recognized government and Tripoli's armed forces have been
conducting air strikes on each other.
A jet from Tripoli's forces this week attacked an airport in
the western town of Zintan near the Tunisian border. The United Nations is
trying to negotiate a deal between the factions to form a unity government to
stop the North African country's slide into wider civil war, with Islamist
militants increasingly using the chaos to gain a foothold in Libya, Reuters
reports.
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Terror attack.
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ReplyDeleteIt might just be ordinary crash.
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