BENGHAZI: Suspected militants killed two workers and kidnapped two
others at a water plant in southeastern Libya early on Saturday, the
second attack targeting water facilities in two days, officials said.
“An armed attack was carried out by terrorist groups on the Tazirbu site
causing havoc, looting, killing and terrorizing families, children and
the workers who ensure the supply of water to cities,” said a statement
from the Great Man-made River Project, a pipe network supplying ground
water from the Libyan Sahara.
An engineer and a guard were shot dead and two guards were kidnapped in
the raid, which the statement said bore the hallmarks of an attack by
Daesh militants. The assailants also stole cars and supplies from the
site, the statement added.
On Friday, members of an unidentified armed group kidnapped three
Filipinos and one Korean employed as technicians at the Al-Hassouna
plant, part of the same water network connecting desert wells to towns
and cities in northern Libya.
The Al-Hassouna and Tazirbu sites are about 1,000 km apart, an official said.
Separately, a Daesh publication, Al- Naba, said on Friday it had
captured two air force officers from forces loyal to eastern-based
commander Khalifa Haftar.
It published a picture of the two men standing handcuffed in orange
jumpsuits, and said they had been taken to the east of the town of
Waddan, in Libya’s central desert.
Officials from Haftar’s Libyan National Army said they could neither confirm nor deny the report.
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