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Libya Calls for Aid in Putting Out Tanker Fire

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The government of Libya has appealed to the international community for help in containing and putting out a fire at an oil depot. A number of oil storage tanks caught fire amid clashes over the Tripoli airport. The country’s own firefighters were forced to abandon efforts to put out the fire.

“Firefighters have been trying for hours to put out the blaze but to no avail. Their water reserves finally ran out and they’ve had to leave,” said NOC spokesman Mohamed al-Hariri, in an AFP report. The blaze started after an oil tank, which lies on the road that leads from the airport to Tripoli, was hit by a rocket, Hariri said.

“It is a tank of 6 million liters of gasoline and it is close to others containing gas and diesel,” he said.


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