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Libya's army chief killed in air crash in Turkey
Gen Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad and four others were on board a Falcon 50 aircraft flying out of the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Tuesday evening.
In a post on X, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said signal with the business jet was lost at 20:52 local time (17:52 GMT) - about 42 minutes after it took off from Ankara's airport.
The Tripoli-bound jet had issued an emergency landing request before contact was lost. The plane's wreckage was later found south-west of Ankara, and an investigation is now under way into what caused the crash.
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In Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the prime minister of the country's internationally-recognised Government of National Unity, said he had received news of the deaths of Gen Haddad and other senior Libyan military officials on board the jet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvgzyepdqno
In a post on X, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said signal with the business jet was lost at 20:52 local time (17:52 GMT) - about 42 minutes after it took off from Ankara's airport.
The Tripoli-bound jet had issued an emergency landing request before contact was lost. The plane's wreckage was later found south-west of Ankara, and an investigation is now under way into what caused the crash.
...
In Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the prime minister of the country's internationally-recognised Government of National Unity, said he had received news of the deaths of Gen Haddad and other senior Libyan military officials on board the jet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvgzyepdqno
"Internationally-recognised Government of National Unity", because there is of course a civil war going on, with the Government of National Stability in control of the east.