The renewed conflict in a nation splintered since the 2011 toppling of Moammar Gadhafi also risks depleting medical supplies, the World Health Organisation warned
Residents carry a coffin containing the body of a member of the Libyan pro-government forces during a funeral in Tripoli on April 8, 2019.Health facilities near Tripoli have reported 47 people killed and 181 wounded in recent days as eastern forces seek to take Libya’s capital from an internationally-recognized government, the United Nations’ health body said on Tuesday.
The death toll – higher than that given by either side yet – appeared to be mainly fighters, although it also included some civilians including two doctors, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told a Geneva news briefing.The eastern Libyan National Army forces of Khalifa Haftar - a former general in Gadhafi’s army - seized largely-desert southern Libya earlier this year before heading to the coastal capital this month, where they are ensconced on the south side.
A warplane took out Tripoli’s only functioning airport on Monday, and the number of displaced – 3,400 at the last UN count – is mounting alongside the casualties.
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