{"id":5131,"date":"2014-09-06T10:26:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T03:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2014-09-06T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T03:26:36","slug":"libyan-jet-crashes-in-tobruk-near-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libyan-jet-crashes-in-tobruk-near-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Libyan jet crashes in Tobruk near parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Libyan military jet has crashed in the eastern city of Tobruk, causing a huge inferno and killing a child and at least two other people, officials say.<\/p>\n

The jet hit a block of flats near the new parliamentary building after developing a “technical fault”, a security official said.<\/p>\n

The jet was controlled by forces loyal to ex-General Khalifa Haftar who have been battling Islamist militias.<\/p>\n

The Islamist-linked Libya Dawn group seized the capital, Tripoli, last week.<\/p>\n

Parliament had earlier relocated to Tobruk, more than 1,000km (620 miles) away, because of the deteriorating security situation in Tripoli.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said the jet was flying at a low altitude and smoke was billowing out of its engine before it crashed into an apartment block and burst into flames, the AFP news agency reports…<\/p>\n

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