TRIPOLI, Libya — Officials warned Monday of growing dangers to civilians from a large and spreading fire in a fuel depot near this city’s international airport, which was sparked by fighting in the area between militias armed with heavy weapons.
Two storage tanks containing petroleum fuel had already been set ablaze, with the fire engulfing one tank, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air. The depot contains more than 15.5 million gallons of petroleum and diesel fuel, and potentially explosive canisters of liquid gas, according to Mohamed al-Harari, a spokesman for Libya’s National Oil Company…
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