[kellyhound]

An airstrike slammed into a military academy in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, on Saturday Jan 4, killing at least 16 people, most of them students, health authorities said.

The airstrike took place in the capital’s Hadaba area, just south of the city center where fighting has been raging for months.

He said the strike also wounded at least 37 others, who were taken to nearby hospitals for urgent treatment.

Tripoli has been the scene of fighting since April between the self-styled Libyan National Army led by Gen. Khalifa Hifter and an array of militias loosely allied with the weak but U.N.-supported government that holds the capital.

The fighting escalated in recent weeks after Hifter declared a “final” and decisive battle for the capital after Tripoli authorities signed military and maritime agreements with Turkey, whose parliament authorized the deployment of troops to Libya.

The Tripoli-based government blamed the airstrike on the Libyan National Army. There was no immediate comment from the LNA.

Hifter launched a surprise military offensive April aimed at capturing Tripoli despite commitments to attend a national conference weeks later aimed at forming a united government and moving toward elections.

The fighting has threatened to plunge Libya into violent chaos rivaling the 2011 conflict that ousted and later killed leader Moammar Gadhafi.

While Hifter’s LNA and the eastern government enjoy the support of France, Russia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and other key Arab countries, the Tripoli-based government is backed by Turkey, Italy and Qatar.

[RoadRash]

Wow pinpoint accuracy!! How in the hell was there so many survivors ???

[motumbo]

Originally Posted by RoadRash ↗

Wow pinpoint accuracy!! How in the hell was there so many survivors ???

Possible an armor piercing projectile rather than a high explosive bomb. Smaller blast radius, less deadly to soft targets like people, but could take out a tank or something much easier.

[DaBigNob]

left
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BOOM!

[minka1]

This is from a plane that dropped this?
Or was it one of the students in the group?
Do military...places of learning...have some sort of 24/7 monitoring? I have never thought about it...but from what I know of what my husband does in the military, I imagine there are divisions(?) of them solely charged with watching the air. Like what they do at airports, monitoring the skies.
I know I’m not putting any of this in the right way, I’m half asleep. But hopefully makes enough sense to get an answer.

[Splay]

I used to do that to ants when I was a kid. In fact, it looked a lot like that.

[Ferocity]

That wasn't very nice
Considering how deadly that looked, I am so happy there were so many survivors from that group.
Without counting those leaders out of formation, for sure there were 8 rows of students and in each row, i think I'm correctly counting 8 people per row. That's 64 students in an 8 by 8 formation plus the leaders.

[SolonJhee]

France supporting the LNA? I don’t think so. But Russia, Iran, Hezbollah ect are most certainly. If Gaddafi was still alive this shit wouldn’t be as severe. Atleast he held his country together and had a good economy for Africa, now they have one of the lowest GDP’s is Africa.

[Aries85]

Drones are awesome.

[pokerplay]

Fucking amazing. Spot on accuracy!