Workers remove a damaged civilian vehicle, after a missile hit the terminal's park of Mitiga airport in Tripoli, Libya August 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A missile hit the car park of Libya's only functioning airport in Tripoli on Saturday, forcing flights to be grounded for almost three hours before operations resumed, the airport and a witness said.
The airport said on its website that Mitiga airport "was exposed to a missile, coinciding with the arrival of two flights." Nobody was hurt, a witness said.
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