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Libya’s influential Interior Minister Fathi Ali Bashaga survived an assassination attempt on a highway near the capital Tripoli today, sources close to him said, quoted by AFP.
The 58-year-old Bashaga caravan was attacked from an armored vehicle in Yanzur, ten kilometers from Tripoli. “The minister’s police escort responded to the fire. Two of the attackers have been arrested, the third is in hospital. The minister is fine,” said a media source.
The politician was returning from a routine visit to the headquarters of a new part of the security forces under his ministry.
Bashaga has been nominated by many as the likely interim prime minister, but Abdel Hamid Dbeiba was finally appointed earlier this month.
Dbeiba was elected along with a three-member Interim Presidential Council in a UN-sponsored procedure. The new executive will rule Libya until parliamentary elections are held in the war-torn country in December.
Libya remains divided between armed and belligerent factions, despite an interim government agreed on February 6 under the auspices of the United Nations.
Despite the agreement reached in Geneva, it is not clear whether all parties to the conflict in the Arab country accept the agreements.
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