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On Sunday night, the Libyan Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord announced that Minister Fathi Bashagha had been the target of an assassination attempt in Tripoli.
The Ministry assured that Salama Bashagha was safe and that he was not damaged.
He explained that an armed and armored vehicle opened fire directly on the minister’s convoy with automatic weapons while returning to his residence in Janzour.
He confirmed the arrest of two of the attackers and the death of a third while dealing with them.
Bashagha Parade
A source told “Reuters” that the attackers opened heavy fire on the minister’s convoy in western Tripoli, after his visit to the National Petroleum Corporation and the headquarters of the ministry’s law enforcement agencies.
The Libyan Oil Corporation headquarters in Tripoli
Subsequently, the Libyan newspaper Al-Marsad confirmed that there had been intense shooting in the Ghout al-Shaal neighborhood of Tripoli, involving cars armed with anti-aircraft aircraft, and that the road was closed.
The newspaper confirmed the identification of the man killed in the clash with the Bashagha caravan, Radwan Al-Hanqari, from the city of Zawiya. He added that he was driving a car with the “stability support device” logo, which was recently created by the head of the National Accord Government, Pfizer al-Sarraj.
Radwan Al-Hanqari
In a related context, our correspondent in Libya explained that Bashagha had issued “punitive decisions against leaders of some armed groups.”
As for the “Libya 24” channel, he confirmed that “militias” from Zawiya and other Bashagha affiliates are gathering in western Tripoli after the Janzour shooting.
Bashagha was appointed in 2018 as Minister of the Interior in the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord. The 58-year-old minister was a candidate for the post of transitional prime minister, which Abd al-Hamid Dabaiba took over in early February as part of a UN-sponsored process.
On October 23, the two rival parties in the west and east of Libya signed a permanent ceasefire agreement, after five days of discussions in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations.
On February 5, engineer and businessman Abdul Hamid Dabaiba was appointed interim prime minister, along with a three-member transitional presidential council to ensure the transition until the organization of national elections in December 2021.
