27 dead and a hundred wounded in the battles for Tripoli

The Tripoli Medical Center said, on Wednesday, that 27 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 southeastern suburb of Tripoli. . in “interim reportThis agency, which manages relief in western Libya, published, on Tuesday evening to Wednesday, 27 dead and 106 wounded in these clashes with heavy weapons between two powerful armed groups in the Libyan capital.

234 families saved

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

The fighting began after the arrest of Colonel Mahmoud Hamza, commander of the 444th Brigade, on Monday, by the Radaa Forces. No information has yet been received about the reasons for his arrest.

Late Tuesday, August 15th,”social council“, consisting of notables and influential personalities from Souk Al-Jumaa, a neighborhood southeast of Tripoli and a stronghold of the Radaa Force, announced that it had reached an agreement with the head of government in Tripoli, Abdul Hamid Dabaiba, to transfer Colonel Mahmoud Hamza to “Neutral sidewithout naming it.

Cease-fire and de-escalation

And this council indicated in a press statement read by its dean on television that calm and a cease-fire will follow this measure, which allowed the return of calm from Tuesday to Wednesday night in Tripoli.

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