Fighting forces Libya to close Tripoli airport again

  02 October 2018    Read: 1177
Fighting forces Libya to close Tripoli airport again

Libya has closed the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli again after rockets were fired in its direction, officials said on Tuesday, days after flights had resumed following a earlier shutdown, Reuters reports.

Matiga airport, a former air base used for commercial flights since the main international airport was destroyed in 2014 by militia fighting, said all flights had been suspended.


It has closed and opened several times since a flare-up in violence in late August.


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