Symbol copyright Reuters Image caption Smoke rises from the headquarters of Libyan state oil company National Oil Supplier
Security forces and armed men are stated to have clashed at the headquarters of the National Oil Supplier (NOC) in Libya’s capital, Tripoli.
An armed team is alleged to have stormed the building, and several other blasts and gunfire could be heard, witnesses say.
Last week, the UN introduced a truce among warring militias were agreed in the capital.
A UN-subsidized executive is nominally in power in Tripoli.
However, militias occupy so much of the remaining of the rustic.
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An NOC member of workforce, who stated he had jumped out of a window to flee, instructed Reuters information company three or five gunmen had been shooting inside the construction and several folks have been shot.
The NOC chairman, Mustafa Sanallah, has been effectively evacuated, a witness quoted through Reuters added.
Rescue products and services are on the scene to regard the wounded popping out of the construction.
It isn’t but clear who carried out the attack.
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