27 dead and a hundred wounded in fighting in Tripoli

Twenty-seven people were killed and a hundred others injured in violent clashes between Monday August 14 and Tuesday August 15 between two influential armed groups in the south-eastern suburbs of Tripoli, the Center for Medicine of Tripoli said on Wednesday. emergency (CMU). In a “temporary report“published in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday on Facebook, this agency which manages relief in western Libya, reported 27 dead and 106 injured in these clashes with heavy weapons between two influential armed groups in the Libyan capital.

234 families rescued

According to the same source, 234 families have been rescued and extracted, as well as several dozen foreign doctors or nurses, stranded since Monday night in combat zones south of the capital. Three field hospitals and around 60 ambulances were mobilized to help the wounded and evacuate civilians to safer areas.

The fighting started after Colonel Mahmoud Hamza, commander of Brigade 444, was arrested on Monday by al-Radaa forces. No information has been given so far on the reasons for his arrest.

Late Tuesday, August 15, the “social council“, made up of notables and influential personalities from Soug el-Joumaa, a sector in the south-east of Tripoli and stronghold of the al-Radaa Force, announced that it had reached an agreement with the head of government sitting in Tripoli, Abdelhamid Dbeibah, to transfer Colonel Mahmoud Hamza to a “neutral partywithout naming her.

A de-escalation and a ceasefire

In a press release read on television by its dean, this council indicated that a de-escalation and a ceasefire will follow this measure, which allowed a return to calm overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in Tripoli.

These two groups are among the most influential in Tripoli, where sits one of the two governments which are vying for power in a country undermined, since the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, by divisions fueled by the proliferation of armed groups. shifting allegiances.