Several employees of mission of the United Nations was captured by the Islamists in control of the territory West of the Libyan capital Tripoli. About it reports Sky News Arabia.
According to preliminary data, the extremists stopped a car in which there were UN personnel, transplanted them into their cars and drove away in an unknown direction. Other details of incident are not reported.
It is known that the group, taking hostages, not subject to Central authorities.
After the overthrow and murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 the country began a civil war and actually there is no single authority. Part of the territory seized by radical Islamists, until recently Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte was controlled by the banned terrorist group “Islamic state”.
Until February 2016 in Libya, there were two governments: democratically elected and recognized by the international community in Tobruk and the Islamist — in Tripoli. 17 December 2015 when the UN mediation, the parties signed an agreement on the establishment of a government of national unity. Its composition was announced on 15 February 2016.