On April 4th, Haftar commanded his army to «exemption from terrorists» to get started an offensive on Tripoli. More than 20 people died in collision between the army of Marshal Haftar and the loyal military to the government. This was reported in the statement of the Ministry of Health of the government of national agreement. "The death toll was twenty-one people, the number of injured and wounded is twenty-seven», the government department wrote in the social network Facebook.
The UN mission in Libya demanded from the sides of the conflict in order to ensure the evacuation of victims to enter a two-hour truce in the southern part of Tripoli. The armed forces, who loyal to the government, had previously announced the beginning of the military operation «Tantrum» against the Libyan National Army under the leadership of Khalifa Haftar. LNA, in turn, has deployed an air part of a military operation in the sky over Tripoli.
Last Thursday, Haftar ordered his army to get started an offensive on Tripoli to «release themselves from terrorists». According to mass-media, the Haftar’s army units took control of the cities of Surman and Garyan southern from the Libyan capital. The head of the national agreement in Tripoli, Fayez al-Sarraj, issued the order to use force in that case that the LNA had taken control of the city southern and western from Tripoli, RIA Novosti reports.
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