According to what was announced on Facebook, by the manager of the airport management, a Libyan plane, carrying 124 passengers, escaped an attack that hit the Mitiga airport area in Tripoli yesterday, when the aircraft was preparing to to land.
“Thank God the crew and passengers of a flight from Benghazi, carrying 124 passengers, escaped a bombing”, this is the message posted and disseminated in the last few hours.
According to news spread via Facebook, after the accident, air traffic was diverted to Misrata for a few hours and then, late yesterday, flights resumed from Mitiga. In recent days there have already been other stops to flights from the airport. The Tripoli area has been the scene since 4 April of the offensive launched by General Khalifa Haftar. Just in these hours, the United Nations envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salamé, condemned "the repeated indiscriminate bombings" against the Mitiga airport and re-launched the appeal for "a truce" in view of the Islamic Festival of the Sacrifice ( Eid al-Adha), which will be celebrated next Sunday.
Meanwhile, attacks by military forces loyal to General Haftar continue, as stated by the councilor in the south-west of Libya, who carried out an air raid on Marzuq causing the death of at least 40 people.