Airstrike On Wedding Leaves 43 People Dead

Airstrike On Wedding Leaves 43 People Dead

There are more than 60 people injured and so far 43 have died after the air attack that occurred this Sunday on a wedding in southern Libya

An air attack in the city of Al Murzuq in southwestern Libya has left 43 people dead, the incident occurred right where a wedding was taking place last Sunday, the device was launched by the aviation of Marshal Jalifa Hafter, while so far there are 60 injured , judicial sources informed Efe.

According to sources, a military plane of the Al Karama (Dignity) forces, led by Hafter, a Libyan strongman, bombarded the residential neighborhood of Al Kalaa, of the Al Tubuo tribe, where a wedding was taking place and there were almost a hundred people.

Unfortunately this is a case due to the conflicts that exist in the country and the lack of agreements, the wedding day ended up being one of the saddest in the lives of those present when going from the party to the funeral and a matter of seconds.

Airstrike on wedding kills 43 people. Photo: Pixabay

Days earlier, the UN special envoy, Ghassan Salamé, had asked the parties to the conflict to agree to a ceasefire on the occasion of the religious festival of Aid al Adha, the feast of the lamb for Muslims, as a previous step to a new dialogue process.

The marshal, whose troops control most of Libya and all the oil fields, launched an offensive on April 4 to try to conquer the capital when the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, was on an official visit, in a clearing. message to the international community.

Since then, more than a thousand people, including militiamen and civilians, have died, more than 5,000 have been injured and around 100,000 have been forced to leave their homes and become internal refugees.

Libya currently has two governments: one in the east supervised by Marshal Hafter, militarily supported by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, France and Russia, and another called the National Accord (GNA), backed by the UN.

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