Twenty-seven people were killed in Tripoli in Libya and a hundred others injured in violent clashes that opposed, from Monday, August 15 to Tuesday, August 15, two armed groups in the south-eastern suburbs of Tripoli, the capital.
The arrest of Colonel Mahmoud Hamza, commander of the “Brigade 444”, by “Force al-Radaa”, had triggered these fights before a return to calm on Tuesday evening, following the announcement of his transfer to a “neutral part”.
234 families were able to be rescued and extracted, as well as several dozen foreign doctors or nurses, blocked since the night of Monday in combat areas.
Late Tuesday, the “social council”, made up of notables and influential personalities of Soug el-Joumaa, sector of the south-east of Tripoli and fief of the “force al-Radaa”, announced that it has reached an agreement with the head of government sitting in Tripoli, Abdelhamid Dbeibah, to transfer Colonel Mahmoud Hamza to a “neutral part”.
