Tripoli armed factions take over rival's compound in heavy fighting

Record ID: 451632

  • Title: Tripoli armed factions take over rival's compound in heavy fighting
  • Date: 15th March 2017
  • Summary: TRIPOLI, LIBYA (MARCH 15, 2017) (REUTERS) POLICE CAR AND POLICEMEN STANDING IN FRONT OF DAMAGED GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL ACCORD (GNA) BUILDING POLICE CAR IN FRONT OF DAMAGED BUILDING VARIOUS OF BUILDING DAMAGED DURING CLASHES EXTERIOR OF BUILDING DAMAGED DURING CLASHES HOLES IN WALL OF BUILDING DAMAGED BUILDINGS BELONGING TO THE GNA RUBBLE OF DESTROYED BUILDING VARIOUS OF INTERIOR OF DAMAGED BUILDING VARIOUS OF RUBBLE IN HALLWAY OF DAMAGED BUILDING PAPERS AND BUSINESS CARDS ON DESK BUSINESS CARD BELONGING TO RIVAL NATIONAL SALVATION GOVERNMENT MEMBER ON DESK VARIOUS OF BURNT CAR PARKED OUTSIDE BUILDING VARIOUS OF WALL DAMAGED BY CLASHES VARIOUS OF BURNT CAR POLICE NEAR DAMAGED BUILDING POLICE NEAR DAMAGED BUILDING/ CARS DRIVING DOWN STREET
  • Embargoed: 29th March 2017 15:20
  • Keywords: Libya Tripoli Violence Government
  • Location: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
  • City: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
  • Country: Libya
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA001682N9ZB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Armed groups aligned with a U.N.-backed government in Tripoli took over a compound occupied by a rival prime minister early on Wednesday (March 15), after heavy fighting that spread to several parts of the Libyan capital.
    The offices of a television station sympathetic to the self-declared National Salvation Government were burned down in the clashes and the channel went off air. A hospital was also hit.
    The fighting apparently was triggered on Monday (March 13) by a dispute over control of a bank in the Hay al-Andalus neighbourhood, then escalated into power struggles between rival groups from Tripoli and the port city of Misrata and between groups that backed the U.N.-sponsored Government of National Accord (GNA) and their opponents.
    Tripoli is controlled by a patchwork of armed groups that have built local fiefdoms and vied for power since Libya's 2011 uprising.
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