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War plane blows up over Ganfouda as fighting rages

byNigel Ash
January 16, 2017
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War plane blows up over Ganfouda as fighting rages

A wounded solider is carried from today's fighting (Photo: social media)

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A wounded solider is carried from today's fighting (Photo: social media)
A wounded solider is carried from today’s fighting (Photo: social media)

Benghazi, 15 January 2017:

A Libyan air force Mig 23 crashed today in Benghazi during an airstrike on Ganfouda. The pilot and company-pilot ejected safely.

A Libyan National Army spokesman said the warplane had suffered a technical failure with one account saying it had exploded while firing rockets. The spokesman denied an earlier report credited to a LNA commander that the aircraft had been hit by ground fire. “If we say an aircraft has been hit it has been hit” he said, “If we say it was technical failure, it was technical failure”.

Pilot pilot Younis Al-Dinali who escaped his Mig-23 today (Photo: social media)
Younis Al-Dinali who escaped his Mig-23 today (Photo: social media)

The Mig’s pilot Younis Al-Dinali and his co-pilot survived the explosion.  However four more members of the Saiqa Special forces, including an unnamed field commander, died today in Ganfouda. Two members of the unit were killed yesterday.

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Ageela Saleh and Khalifa Hafter in Marj yesterday
Ageela Saleh and Khalifa Hafter in Marj yesterday (Photo: LNA)

It has emerged that yesterday armed forces commander-in-chief Khalifa Hafter had a meeting at his Al-Rajma  HQ,  some 27 km east of Benghazi with LNA western area commander Colonel Idris Madi and his southern area opposite number 12th Brigade commander Mohamed Ben Nayel. House of Representatives president Ageela Saleh was also present.

Today it is reported that Hafter also had talks with interim prime minister Abdullah Thinni, also at Al-Rajma.

This article has been updated. It stated wrongly that the Hafter meetings were in Marj.

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