STORY: Death toll of clashes in Libya's Tripoli rises to 55
DATELINE: Aug. 17, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:04
LOCATION: Tripoli
CATEGORY: MILITARY
 
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the security forces
2. various of the Ain Zara area after the clashes
 
STORYLINE:
 
Local media reported that 55 people have been killed and 126 injured in the clashes that erupted in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday.
   
The reports said that the victims include civilians and security personnel, while several bodies remain unidentified.
   
Violent clashes erupted in parts of Tripoli later on Monday between the 444 Brigade and the Special Deterrence Force following the latter's reported arrest of a powerful 444 Brigade commander.
   
The Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday that the clashes stopped when the warring factions agreed to a cease-fire "with the efforts of the Prime Minister and elders of Tripoli."
   
During a meeting on Wednesday with many elders of Tripoli, Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah, the Libyan prime minister, rejected the "return of fighting" in the country.
   
Libya has witnessed violence and insecurity since the fall of the late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
 
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tripoli.
(XHTV)