TRIPOLI, Libya.-At least 18 members of the Government of the National Union (GNA), established by the UN in Tripoli, and 14 combatants of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), led by General Marshal Khalifa Hafter, were killed in intense fighting that EST They were there this morning by the control of the south of Tripoli, informed Efe today a source of security. According to the same, in the clashes were injured 32 members of the LNA, some of whom are in critical condition, and were transferred to the hospital of the city of Terhuna (southeast). For its part, GNA-related forces reported on the social networks to have demolished a pilotless plane with a flag of Arab Emirates without providing further details. At the same time, a double explosion caused the death of 3 people and wounded another 8 in front of the headquarters of the LNA in the coastal city of Derna (east), bastion of jihadism in the north of Africa, confirmed Efe a source of security of this city. The troops led by Hafter, a strong man of the country and a guardian of the executive established in the eastern city of Tobruk, erected on April 4 a siege in the south of Tripoli, which has become the scene of daily combat in order to expel the government of the UN-supported capital since 2016.
Since then, the clashes have caused nearly 600 dead and more than 3,000 injured and forced more than 30,000 people to become internally displaced, according to data from the World Health Organization.
The fighting has also affected the thousands of irregular migrants who are confined to Tripoli detention centres, who are trying to move to safer places in the north of the city.
