AFPTwo guards and a soldier were killed and four other people were kidnapped early on Saturday in a suspected Daesh attack targeting Libya's Zella oilfield, a security source said. The death toll was confirmed by the National Oil Company (NOC) which condemned the attack in a statement on Saturday evening. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack through its Aamaq news agency later on Saturday. The Zella field belongs to Zueitina Oil Company, which pumped 19,000 barrels per day on average in the last quarter of 2018 across all its fields. Libya's NOC chief said on Saturday continued instability in the country could cause it to lose 95 percent of oil production.

Source: Libya Today May 19, 2019 09:22 UTC