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Friday, December 26, 2014
Fighting near the Libyan port of Es Sider led to a rocket hitting a storage tank, damage was reported to be limited however. Clashes around the port are a result of the country’s competing governments trying to gain control of the port, which is Libya’s biggest export terminal.
Clashes were also reported from Sirte, west of Es Sider, that left an estimated 19 dead.
Es Sider and its adjacent Ras Lanuf terminal have been closed since a force allied to a rival government in Tripoli moved east trying to take them.
While damage to the oil storage tank hit with the rocket was limited, reports have the resultant fire spreading to two more tanks.
“A tank was hit but the damage is limited,” said an official from a security service allied to the internationally-recognized government, now operating from eastern Libya in a Reuters report. He said there were heavy clashes in the Ben Jawad area west of Es Sider where he said some of the rival forces were based.
He accused opponents of having shot at the port from boats which they had tried to dock at Es Sider. “The air force destroyed three boats which were attempting to seize the port,” he said.
Ismail al-Shukri, spokesman for the rival force, denied this, saying war planes belonging to the other side had bombed the port. “Our forces are progressing from all directions towards Es Sider port,” he said according to the report.
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