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Mitiga Airport Mayhem
Mitiga airport closed by fightingTripoli, 5 July 2017: Mitiga airport has been shut today as fighting rages between rival members of the same militia. Yesterday an RPG fired during the violence killed a family of five on the beach. The health ministry said this morning that 32 people had so far been injured. The fighting is between rival members of the Buni Brigade which controls the airport terminal building. It is understood that there had been a falling out over the distribution of the income the militia earns from goods and passengers passing through the terminal. The original dispute started when one Buni Brigade member was killed by another, at which point the two different factions set on each other. Yesterday it was reported that men from the Haytham Tajouri’s Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigade had been sent to Mitiga. It is now being said that forces from Abdul Rauf Kara’s Rada Special Deterrence Force were seeking to intervene. Mitiga airport reopens Tripoli, 5 July 2017: Tripoli’s Mitiga airport closed by fighting among militiamen this morning has now reopened. The RADA Special Deterrence Force said its men had arrived and that they had arrested “most of the criminals” who were behind the security breaches, which caused passengers at the airport to take cover. Aircraft movements have resumed with an Afriqiyah flight from Labraq landing this evening and the airline also sending off two delayed Airbus A320s to Tobruk. Posted by: badanov 2017-07-06 |
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