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Thursday, January 7, 2016
The clashes between ISIS militants and guards at Libya’s Es Sider and Ras Lanuf ports that began on January 4 have led to fires at oil storage tanks at the port. According to a spokesman from the Petroleum Facilities Guard, four oil storage tanks are burning and the skirmishes between the two are continuing.
An estimated nine guards have been killed during fighting and 40 injured. Reports have the guards recovering the bodies of 30 ISIS fighters and capturing two military tanks and other vehicles from the militants.
Firefighters were trying to control three fires at Es Sider and one at Ras Lanuf. Two blazes were triggered by shelling from ISIS, and fire had spread to two more.
Libya’s NOC made an appeal for help on their website when clashes and the shelling of storage facilities carried over “We are helpless and not being able to do anything against this deliberate destruction to the oil installations in Es-Sider and Ras Lanuf,” said NOC in what it titled a “Cry for Help” on its website.
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