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July 3, 2019

Airstrike Hits Migrant Detention Center in Libya, Killing At Least 40
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In Libya, an overnight airstrike killed at least 40 people and injured
at least 80 others at a migrant detention center near the capital
Tripoli. The facility housed mostly African migrants. The U.N.-backed
Government of National Accord is blaming blaming the opposition Libyan
National Army, led by the renegade General Khalifa Haftar. Violence
around Tripoli has been mounting since Haftar's forces launched an
offensive to capture the city. Human rights groups say both sides may
have committed war crimes by attacking heavily populated civilian areas.


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