- Title: Air strike in Libyan capital Tripoli kills three young sisters
- Date: 14th October 2019
- Summary: TRIPOLI, LIBYA (OCTOBER 14, 2019) (REUTERS) TWO CIVILIANS EMBRACING VARIOUS OF DEMOLISHED HOUSE VARIOUS OF TOYS INSIDE HOUSE VARIOUS OF SHOE ON GROUND MAN CLIMBING OVER RUBBLE AND WOOD (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) NEIGHBOUR WHO DID NOT WANT TO BE NAMED, SAYING: "This was a displaced family, this house was donated to them and now it’s been hit by a strike, they were civilians, a girl aged 4 and another girl just 11 years old, they were innocent. I live right by them, I am their neighbour and that is my house, my car. My house has been damaged as well, none of us have any affiliation to any military and we have nothing to do with this war, these are civilians whose lives were lost. Someone pay attention to us and our situation, we are Libyan, we are killing each other, why? I took them out of the rubble with my own two hands." EXTERIORS OF HOUSE DAMAGED FROM AIR STRIKE HOLE IN HOUSE FORCES LOYAL TO UN-BACKED GOVERNMENT STANDING VARIOUS OF DESTROYED HOUSE, RUBBLE AND WOOD ON GROUND VARIOUS OF RUBBLE ON GROUND, PARKED VEHICLE AND PEOPLE STANDING IN BACKGROUND
- Embargoed: 28th October 2019 18:48
- Keywords: Three children sisters Libya Tripoli military intelligence camp
- Location: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
- City: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
- Country: Libya
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA001B12MJWN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Three children, all sisters, were killed, and their mother and a fourth sister wounded in an air strike that hit a house near a military intelligence camp in Libya's capital on Monday (October 14), a Reuters reporter and health officials said.
The mother was in critical condition and her daughter had emergency surgery to amputate a leg after the strike in the Al Fornaj neighborhood of southern Tripoli, the Tripoli-based Health Ministry and hospital officials said.
Libya's internationally recognized government blamed the strike on forces of Khalifa Haftar, the commander based in the east of the North African country who has been trying to seize Tripoli in the west in a ground and air campaign since April.
A Reuters reporter saw a heavily damaged two-storey house which witnesses said had been hit around midday. The family living there were among those displaced from the outskirts of Tripoli since the start of Haftar's campaign, residents said.
The conflict in and around Tripoli has killed and wounded hundreds of civilians and more than 120,000 have been displaced, but Haftar's offensive has not breached the city's southern defenses.
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