Islamist militiamen on Sunday stepped up their assault on Libya's main airport, two days after the collapse of a truce with rival ex-rebels who control the facility, a security official said. Local residents said the upsurge in violence killed at least one civilian when a rocket hit a house in the capital's Qasr Ben Gheshir district near Tripoli international airport. "The airport was attacked this morning with mortar rounds, rockets and tank fire," airport security official Al-Jilani al-Dahesh told AFP. "It was the most intense bombardment so far." Dahesh said the militia which controls the airport, based in Zintan, southwest of the capital, and seen by Islamists as the armed wing of liberals within the government, responded with heavy fire.
07-28-2014, 12:41 AM
Islamists mount 'heaviest' assault on Libya airport
Islamist militiamen on Sunday stepped up their assault on Libya's main airport, two days after the collapse of a truce with rival ex-rebels who control the facility, a security official said. Local residents said the upsurge in violence killed at least one civilian when a rocket hit a house in the capital's Qasr Ben Gheshir district near Tripoli international airport. "The airport was attacked this morning with mortar rounds, rockets and tank fire," airport security official Al-Jilani al-Dahesh told AFP. "It was the most intense bombardment so far." Dahesh said the militia which controls the airport, based in Zintan, southwest of the capital, and seen by Islamists as the armed wing of liberals within the government, responded with heavy fire.
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