Civilians from the Libyan Tabu tribes were killed in a raid carried out by retired Major General Khalifa Hifter on the town of Um al-Arbab in southern Libya.
Local sources of the island that the raid was carried out yesterday evening a drone targeted the Chinese company in the town, south of the city of Sabha.
The sources added that among the dead seven children between the ages of seven and 15 years, pointing out that most of the population of the targeted neighborhood displaced from areas in southern Libya.
Tabu activists posted on Facebook posted a video showing the bodies of children bloodied or burned at the site of the bombing.
In exchange for local sources confirming the targeting of civilians in Umm al-Rabbani, Ahmed al-Mesmari, spokesman for the so-called Libyan National Army led by Hifter, talked about raids on gunmen belonging to an armed group of the Tabu tribes south of the city of Ubari after trying to seize the oil fields elephant and spark.
Al-Mesmari said that the raids on the project "Maknusa" agricultural resulted in the destruction of 25 armed vehicles and the killing of dozens of what he described as terrorist elements.
The armed group of Tabu tribes led by Ali Kanna stormed the field of elephant, which produces 70 thousand barrels per day, and Hifter's forces said they recovered the field within a few hours.
In Tripoli, gunmen from Hifter's forces last night targeted Mitiga airport with six Grad rockets, which military sources told the island that they were fired from positions south of the Libyan capital.
For his part, announced the spokesman for the forces of the Government of National Accord, Colonel Mohamed Qannouno, that the forces of the reconciliation took control on Thursday positions of Hifter forces in the mixer axis south of the capital.
He said they had also captured five of the attacking forces in Tripoli, including a commander in the Tariq ibn Ziyad battalion and a Sudanese mercenary.