Libya: WHO decries medical workers' deaths


(MENAFN) On Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) voiced deep denouncement to clashes that caused the death of two medical employees in Tripoli.

In an online statement, WHO Libya stressed that it "condemns the deaths on Thursday of two health workers in Tripoli during an incident involving two ambulances. Several more ambulance personnel were injured."

WHO revealed that shelling attacks in southern Tripoli struck a couple of ambulances that were heading to save injured people caught up in the clashes.

Death toll of the violence in the Libyan capital reached 510 people so far, with 2,467 others inflicted with injuries in the battle between the UN-backed government and the east-based army.

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