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Sirte children injured playing with live rounds
2017-02-03
[Libya Herald] Live 32 calibre small arms ammunition which went kaboom! when thrown onto a fire are reported to have injured three young people in western Sirte today.

The children aged between 13 and 15 were taken to Misrata hospital where their injuries were said not to be life-threatening.

Unwent kaboom! ordinance and mines still litter Sirte and the operation to clear the town of the danger has only just begun.

It was also reported today that 20 rockets had been found in a valley south of the town, along with the decomposing body of a man thought to be an IS terrorist. It is unclear if this is in the areas struck by US bombers eight days ago when some 90 terrorist suspects were killed.

Meanwhile Sirte mayor Mukhtar al-Madani is working on bringing back fellow citizens who, after fleeing the town when IS took over, have survived as Internally Displaced People elsewhere in country.

Madani today saw officials from Libya Telecom, the departments of education, housing, water and sanitation as he sought to restore basic services and re-establish some semblance of normality. He is continuing to press the Presidency Council to provide compensation to those whose properties were damaged or totally destroy in the Bunyan Marsous
...(al-Bunyan al-Marsous, Solid Base) An operation carried out by Misratan forces loyal to the Libyan Goverenment of National Accord to dislodge ISIS forces from Sirte. 2,500 turbans were reported killed in the operation, which lasted from May through December.GNA's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj officially announced the end of military operations on 18 December 2016...
operation to defeat IS.

Posted by:Fred

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