Libya: Clashes between rival libyan tribes claim more lives
Fresh clashes Thursday between rival Libyan tribes killed eight people, a hospital official said, even as authorities spoke of an imminent truce in the southern desert town of Sabha.
“The situation is very bad. At least eight bodies were brought to the hospital over the past three hours,” said a doctor at the Sabha hospital, Abdel Rahman Arish, reached by telephone.
He told AFP several people were also wounded in the fighting that has raged since Monday between the Toubou tribe and Arab tribesmen from Sabha.
But the ruling National Transitional Council gave a conflicting account, one day after reporting that more than 70 people had been killed and 150 wounded in Sabha.