Airstrikes kill 2 in Libya’s Tripoli

File: A crater is seen at the blast site after an air strike at Mitiga airport in Tripoli, Libya April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Hani Amara

Unknown airstrikes attacked a residential area south of the Libyan capital Tripoli late Saturday, killing two people and injuring 10 others, according to military and medical sources.

File: A crater is seen at the blast site after an air strike at Mitiga airport in Tripoli, Libya April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Hani Amara

“Five airstrikes targeted sites in Abu Salim and Al-Fallah (southern Tripoli),” a government military source told Xinhua.

“We speculate the airstrikes were carried out by Haftar’s drones (army),” the source said, confirming that the strikes hit civilian sites.

A hospital in southern Tripoli received two dead bodies and 10 injured people, according to a medical source, who said the casualties were likely to increase.

The east-based army, led by Khalifa Haftar, has been leading a military campaign since early April to take over Tripoli from the UN-backed government.

The fighting so far killed more than 270 people and injured more than 1,300 others, and displaced more than 13,000 people.

Libya has been struggling to make a democratic transition amid insecurity and chaos ever since the fall of former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.