Serbian diplomats die in US RAID in Libya

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Serbian diplomats die in US RAID in Libya

This was not intentional: Since November, the two were employees of the Serbian Embassy in the violence of extremists in Libya. Now flew the US army an air RAID, and the two Serbs came with died.

The area in Sabratha after the attack

On Friday, the US armed forces, the bearing is in the westlibyschen city of Sabratha with fighter aircraft attacked, in the firm Conviction that it was a training camp of the terrorist organization “Islamic state” (IS). At least 40 people were killed and as so often when such action is also Innocent.

“Unfortunately, we have to get to the Information that this attack several foreign citizens – and among them two officials from our Embassy were killed,” said Serbia’s interior Minister Ivica Dacic in Belgrade. He is still waiting on the confirmation from the Libyan authorities, but enrsprechende photos were fearing the worst, the Minister said.

Serbian Foreign Minister Dacic

Diplomatenstatus didn’t help

The driver of the Serbian Embassy in Libya, Jovica Stepic, as well as the employee Sladjana Stankovic were in November, has been kidnapped. Both enjoyed Diplomatenstatus. According to the words of the Serbian Geheimdienstchefs Ivan Todorov were the two compatriots in the last few months of an IS group have been detained.

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Among the Victims of the U.S. attack is, according to present Reports, also an Extremist who for two attacks in the past year in neighbouring Tunisia is made responsible.

Since the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in front of a good four years now, Libya is in Chaos. Thus, there are two rival governments and parliaments. In the power vacuum tried the IS, such as in Syria or in Iraq to gain a foothold. Under the mediation of the United Nations was now a common Ministerliste created. The parliamentary consent to such a government of national unity, however.

ml/sti (dpa,rtr,afp)