Daesh decapitates 12 fighters in Libya’s Sirte
The Takfiri terrorist group Daesh has beheaded 12 people and hung their bodies on crosses in the northern Libyan city of Sirte, as it fights for control of the city.
The national news agency LANA said on Saturday that those decapitated by Daesh were local fighters defending the eastern district of Sirte, known as “neighborhood three.”
The agency also reported that Daesh militants had executed 22 other Sirte residents, who lay wounded in a city hospital, and set the hospital on fire.
LANA added that fighting over control of the city has been going on since Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a top Libyan diplomat warned that a “massacre” is underway in the city.
Libya’s Ambassador to France Chibani Abuhamoud told AFP on Friday that the fighting in Sirte had left between 150 and 200 dead.
Daesh has been “massacring people, even killing people in their homes… and we call on the international community to intervene,” Abuhamoud said.
Late Friday, the Dar al-Iftaa Muslim organization that issues religious fatwas, called on all Libyan people to defend the nation against the Daesh violence.
“All Libyans able to carry weapons must mobilize to confront this cancer, which is trying to destroy our Muslim nation,” read the statement.
Sirte is the hometown of slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Since the fall of Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has descended into chaos.
The country is currently run by two governments and two parliaments vying for power.
Daesh, which has taken control of parts of Iraq and Syria, has also gained a foothold in Libya and is making efforts to expand its reign of terror in the North African country.
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