The country's interior minister compared the attacks to war crimes committed by Hitler.
A volley of rocket attacks on the Libyan capital of Tripoli caused havoc overnight with people scrambling to safety and crowds answering a call to donate blood for the wounded.
The prime minister of the internationally-recognised government in the capital called the attacks"barbaric" and the interior minister told Sky News that the assaults were akin to war acts perpetrated by Hitler. Although it is difficult to gauge accurate numbers of wounded and dead, the hospital director said at least four people had been killed and about 20 injured.
The Tripoli-based administration is blaming the bombing on the forces ranged on the outskirts of the capital which are loyal to a commander who was once a general under the country's former dictator, Colonel Gaddafi. Khalifa Heftar threatened to storm the capital with his self-styled Libyan National Army when he began his assault nearly two weeks ago.Sky's Alex Crawford joins the disparate group of fighters defending Tripoli from Khalifa Haftar and the Libyan National Army.There's been frantic fighting on the outskirts as a range of different fighting groups inside the city have united to prevent his forces entering.
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