{"id":2958,"date":"2026-10-19T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:03:50","slug":"nine-security-agency-members-killed-in-blast-west-of-libyan-capital-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2958","title":{"rendered":"Nine security agency members killed in blast west of Libyan capital Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>At least nine members of a security agency were killed and several \u200bothers wounded by a mortar blast \u200cduring a training exercise in a city west of Libya\u2019s capital Tripoli late on Sunday, a \u200blocal TV channel said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blast, from an \u200b82mm mortar round, caused casualties among \u2060members of the Anti-Threat Security Agency, according \u200bto Libya Alahrar TV channel broadcasting from Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bAgency is a security force under the UN-recognized Government of National Unity led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid \u200bDbeibah, according to the force\u2019s verified \u200bFacebook page.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate comments from authorities on \u200cthe \u2060incident.<\/p>\n<p>Citing medical sources, Libya Alahrar TV channel said other individuals were wounded, without saying how many.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in Zawiya, which \u200bis home \u200bto the country\u2019s \u2060largest operating oil refinery, around 40 km west of Tripoli, \u200band has been the site of \u200brepeated \u2060clashes between rival armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has been plagued by unrest since the overthrow of \u2060Muammar \u200bGaddafi in 2011 and remains \u200bdivided between rival authorities in the country\u2019s west and \u200beast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine members of a security agency were killed and several \u200bothers wounded by a mortar blast \u200cduring a training exercise in a city west of Libya\u2019s capital Tripoli late on Sunday, a \u200blocal TV channel said. The blast, from an \u200b82mm mortar round, caused casualties among \u2060members of the Anti-Threat Security Agency, according \u200bto Libya Alahrar TV channel broadcasting from Istanbul. The \u200bAgency is a security force under the UN-recognized Government of National Unity led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid \u200bDbeibah, according to the force\u2019s verified \u200bFacebook page. There&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}