Mitiga International Airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli was closed today due to artillery shells overnight, injuring four people, including pilgrims. The United Nations condemned the attack calling for holding those responsible to account.
The Reuters news agency quoted a media official in the government of national reconciliation, said four people were injured, three of them returning from the pilgrimage, coinciding with the bombing of the airport east of Tripoli with the landing of a plane coming from Saudi Arabia carrying Libyan pilgrims.
The source of the attack on the airport is still unclear, but the Wefaq government has pointed the finger at the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter, according to a statement posted on its official Facebook page.
UN Mission
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said it had confirmed that four rockets hit civilian parts of the airport. From the crew at least as they rushed out. "
It is the seventh time in a month since late July that Mitiga airport, the only airport operating in the Libyan capital, has been bombed, the UN mission said in a statement.
The United Nations Mission condemned the shelling, affirming that it was documenting the shelling with a view to referring it to the International Criminal Court and the Security Council, and considered the targeting of the airport a direct threat to civilian life that cannot be justified and those responsible must be held accountable.
Four Libyan airlines said on their Web sites that they had moved their operations from Mitiga airport to Misrata airport, about 200 km east of Tripoli, until further notice.