19 African nation troopers slain when powerboat attack on oil ports

The militiamen happiness to the Fajr African nation, or African nation Dawn, launched the attack on the port of Al Sidra by firing rockets from speedboats, setting AN oil tank flaming, security sources aforesaid.

These speedboats had laid-off many rockets at the terminals of Ras Lanuf and Al-Sidra and one in all them hit a tank south of Al-Sidra port that then caught hearth, aforesaid Ali al Hassi, security spokesperson for the region.Soldiers broken 3 of the vessels before clashes within which a minimum of nineteen of them were killed, they said, adding the militants were eventually repelled.

Al Sidra is found within the region called the oil crescent that has been the scene of recent fighting between government forces and Fajr African nation.A military supply aforesaid nineteen troopers were killed within the region, which the oil tank stricken by a rocket was still burning within the Al Sidra oil terminal.

Since the clashes erupted on Dec thirteen, boring within the country has born to just about 350,000 barrels per day compared with 800,000 antecedently, consistent with business consultants

The militia on weekday repelled AN attack within which the Fajr African nation militia tried to seize the Al Sidra oil terminal, said Hassi, adding that it had been throughout this attack that the nineteenth soldier died.

A medical supply at Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte aforesaid the power received eighteen bodies from the fighting