Libyan inside minister Fathi Bashagha’s motorcade attacked

Image Source : AP FILE – In this Dec. 26, 2019 file picture, Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha speaks throughout a information convention in Tunis, Tunisia. The motorcade of the inside minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed authorities got here below assault on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, within the capital, Tripoli, a authorities spokesman mentioned. Bashagha survived the assault.
The motorcade of the inside minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed authorities got here below assault on Sunday within the capital, Tripoli, officers mentioned. Armed males opened fireplace at Fathi Bashagha’s motorcade on a freeway in Tripoli, wounding a minimum of one among his guards, mentioned Amin al-Hashmi, a spokesman for the Tripoli-based Health Ministry.
He mentioned the minister survived the assault and his guards chased the assailants, killing one and detaining two others.
The Interior Ministry mentioned in a press release that Bashagha was returning to his residence within the Janzour neighborhood when armed males in an armored car opened fireplace on his convoy.
The assertion known as the assault an “attempted assassination” of the minister.
Earlier Sunday, Bashagha met with Mustafa Sanalla, head of Libya’s National Oil Corporation to debate the safety of oil services and the right way to strengthen the company’s independence to “ensure a fair distribution of wealth among all Libyans.” He posted a photograph for each of them on his Twitter account, calling their assembly “fruitful.”
No group claimed accountability for the assault, which underscores the insecurity within the North African county.

The U.S. Ambassador in Libya Richard Norland condemned the assault and known as for an investigation to carry these accountable accountable.
“Minister Bashaga’s focus on ending the influence of rogue militias has our full support,” Norland mentioned.
Oil-rich Libya was plunged into chaos after a 2011 NATO-backed rebellion toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The nation has been divided between two governments, one within the east and one other within the west, every backed by an unlimited array of militias in addition to international powers.
Earlier this month, an UN-picked physique comprised of Libyans from each side appointed an interim authorities — a three-member Presidential Council and a primary minister — to guide the nation via elections, scheduled for Dec. 24.
Bashagha was a contender for the submit of prime minister, in the long run Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah was chosen to guide the transitional Cabinet.
The discussion board additionally picked Mohammad Younes Menfi, a Libyan diplomat from the nation’s east, to guide the Presidential Council.
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