Libya warplane attacked trawler carrying gasoline to Benghazi


  • World
  • Thursday, 15 Jan 2015

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan warplane attacked a fishing trawler carrying gasoline to the port of Benghazi this week after the internationally recognised government suspected it of supplying Islamist militants, a military official said on Thursday.

Libya's recognised government, which has been driven out of the capital, is locked in escalating conflict with a self-declared government of a faction known as Libya Dawn that seized Tripoli last summer.

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