TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Four suspected migrant smugglers were killed in an exchange of fire with the Libyan coastguard off western Libya on Thursday, spokesman Ayoub Qassem said.
Qassem said a German journalist travelling on the coastguard boat was injured in the clash, which he said started when the coastguards tried to apprehend heavily armed gunmen stationed near a migrant boat.
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