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Tensions in Lybia, Bengasi airport hit by rockets

Bengasi, Lybia - The air base is closed since Friday because of security reasons

Tensions in Lybia are still going on. In the night between Sunday and Monday, May 19, Grad rockets were launched against the Bengasi airport, in the east of the country. The air base was closed on Friday because of fights (some of which near the landing and takeoff runways) among islamists and paramilitaries guided by former general Khalifa Haftar whose forces also attacked, on Sunday, the Parliament,...

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Rome, Italy, 05/19/2014 11:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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