Mortar bombs land on Tripoli suburb as two-week battle rages on


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Apr 2019

Members of the Libyan internationally recognised government forces are seen in Al-Swani area in Tripoli, Libya April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

AL-SUANI, Libya (Reuters) - Mortar bombs crashed down on a suburb of Tripoli on Thursday, almost hitting a clinic and adding to people's suffering after two weeks of an offensive by eastern troops on the Libyan capital, which is held by an internationally recognised government.

The shelling came a day after seven people were killed when Grad rockets hit a densely populated district of Tripoli, which the eastern Libyan forces of commander Khalifa Haftar have been trying to take, deepening the chaos that has plagued the oil-producing nation since 2011.

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