An airstrike on a migrant detention center in Tripoli killed at least 44 people, U.N. officials said, in the deadliest single attack in a three-month long battle for Libya’s capital among the country’s warring factions.
CAIRO—An airstrike on a migrant detention center in Tripoli killed at least 44 people late on Tuesday night, U.N. officials said, in the deadliest single attack in a three-month long battle for Libya’s capital among the country’s warring factions.
Libya’s U.N.-backed government blamed the attack on militia leader Khalifa Haftar, who launched an assault on the capital in April, plunging the country into an all-out war that has killed more than 700 people and forced tens of thousands to flee. A spokesman for Mr. Haftar’s forces...
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