Heavy casualties reported in Libya airbase attack
More than 140 people have been killed in an attack on a Libyan airbase, a spokesman for the east Libyan armed forces said. Scores of troops are thought to have been killed in acts of summary execution, Deutsche Welle reports.
A spokesman for the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) confirmed on Friday that 141 people, most of whom were LNA soldiers, were killed a day earlier in an attack on an airbase in south Libya.
LNA spokesman Ahmad al-Mesmari said the attack on the Brak al-Shati airbase had been carried out by a brigade known as the Third Force, a militia group nominally aligned with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). Islamist militants were also thought to have been involved, al-Mesmari added.
