Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah has confirmed the death of Libyan military chief Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad and four others in a plane crash in Turkey on Tuesday evening.
The prime minister said in a statement on Facebook that the “tragic accident" took place as the Libyan delegation was “returning from an official trip to Ankara”. He called it a "great loss” to Libya.
Officials in Libya said contact with the plane was completely lost about half an hour into the flight because of a technical malfunction.
Al-Hadad was the top military commander in western Libya. He played a crucial role in the UN-brokered ongoing efforts to unify Libya’s military, which has split much like Libya’s institutions.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
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