Fire at storage tank at Libya's Es Sider port has spread to more oil tanks - officials


  • World
  • Friday, 26 Dec 2014

Black smoke billows out of a storage oil tank in the port of Es Sider in Ras Lanuf December 25, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A fire at an oil storage tank at Libya's Es Sider port has spread to two more tanks after a rocket hit the country's biggest terminal during clashes between forces allied to competing governments, officials said on Friday.

Es Sider and its adjacent Ras Lanuf terminal have been closed since a force allied to a rival government in Tripoli moved east trying to take them, part of a struggle between former rebels who helped topple Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but are now fighting for power and a share of oil reserves.

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