Twenty-seven people were killed and around a hundred wounded in violent clashes between two influential armed groups in Tripoli's southeastern suburbs from Monday to Tuesday, the Center for Emergency Medicine (CMU) said on Wednesday. In a "provisional toll" published on Facebook on Tuesday night, this agency, which manages relief efforts in western Libya, reported 27 dead and 106 wounded in the heavy-weapons clashes between two influential armed groups in the Libyan capital. According to the same source, 234 families have been rescued and extracted, as well as several dozen foreign doctors and nurses, who had been stranded since Monday night in the fighting south of the capital. Three field hospitals and some sixty ambulances were mobilized to rescue the wounded and evacuate civilians to safer areas. The fighting started after the arrest on Monday of Colonel Mahmoud Hamza, commander of Brigade 444, by the al-Radaa force.

Source: Ethiopian News August 16, 2023 13:27 UTC