WHO says it has deployed more staff as UN-recognised government seeks international action against Khalifa Haftar.
At least 205 people have been killed in the battle for control of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, as the UN-recognised government said it would seek the prosecution of renegade military leader Khalifa Haftar in the International Criminal
Court.
The United Nations-affiliated WHO said in a post on Twitter it had deployed medical specialists to support frontline hospitals as the recent fighting had also left more than 900 wounded.
According to WHO, at least 18 civilians were among those killed in the fighting that broke out on April 4 when Haftar launched an offensive to take Tripoli, controlled by the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA).
WHO said it was keeping medical and surgical teams deployed at field hospitals near the frontlines as the LNA remained in the capital’s southern outskirts battling armed groups loyal to the government.
Meanwhile, on Thursday armed groups attacked a major air base in southern Libya controlled by Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA). The Tamanhint base near Sabha is the main base in southern Libya, which the LNA seized earlier this year.
Fighting was continuing at the base, Sabha Mayor Hamid Rafaa al-Khiyali and an eastern military official said, without giving more details.
The identity of the attackers was not immediately clear.
