Libyan government spokesperson Mussa Ibrahim says Nato airstrikes in Tripoli killed three people and wounded 150 others.
|||Tripoli - Heavy explosions were heard in the Libyan capital Tripoli early on Tuesday and a government spokesperson said Nato airstrikes had killed three people and wounded 150.
Spokesperson Mussa Ibrahim said the strikes had targeted a compound of the Popular Guards, a tribally-based military detachment. The compound was largely empty and the casualties were people living in the vicinity, he said.
Nato warplanes have been carrying out airstrikes on Libya for more than two months since the United Nations authorised “all necessary measures” to protect civilians from leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the country's civil war.
Reuters correspondent Joseph Logan, reporting from Tripoli, said earlier he had heard planes overhead and at least a dozen very loud blasts, and seen a column of smoke rising. Authorities were taking foreign journalists to view casualties in a hospital.
A correspondent for Arab news channel Al Arabiya, monitored in Cairo, said 17 missiles had struck various parts of Tripoli. - Reuters
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/tripoli-rocked-by-heavy-explosions-1.1072894
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