Four children were allegedly killed by LNA artillery shelling on the Hadaba Al Badri neighbourhood of Tripoli.
Initially sources reported two dead and two injured, referring to a GNA Ministry of Health spokesperson.
The Libya Observer reported: “Three children have been killed and others injured in Al-Hadba Al-Badri neighborhood as Khalifa Haftar’s forces have fired indiscriminate shells on residential areas in southern Tripoli.
The Volcano of Rage Operation’s media office said Tuesday that one of the random shells fired by Haftar’s forces fell near Rajab Al-Naeb School in Al-Hadba Al-Badri area.
Meanwhile, the media consultant of the Health Ministry Ameen Al-Hashimi confirmed the number of killed children and said other children were wounded, adding that they were on their way to school and that they aged between 9 and 12 years old.”
The Field Medicine and Support Center said: “In the context of the tasks assigned to the Center for Field Medicine and Support, a team from the center toured the field to find out the size of the injuries left by the fall of a projectile behind a school in Al-Hadaba Al-Badri region on Tuesday 28 January 2020, which resulted in the martyrdom of three children who were referred to the Mercy House at Tripoli Medical Hospital.
Anas Abdul Hakim Al-Ghazwi, 12 years
Ramadan Orabi, 10 years
Zakaria Jamal Mustafa, 9 years
The child Malik Abdel Hakim Al-Ghazewi entered operations at the Tripoli Medical Hospital.”
Al Wasat also reported that the third child had died.
Emadeddin Badi tweeted that the “last of the 4 child casualties of #Haftar’s LAAF shelling on Hadhba yday (initially 2 killed/2 severely injured) has also died this morning in intensive care due to the severity of his wounds.”
Other sources also later confirmed the death of the fourth child
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Anas Abdul Hakim Al-Ghazwi
12 years old
male
killed
Ramadan Orabi
10 years old
male
killed
Zakaria Jamal Mustafa
9 years old
male
killed
Malik Abdel Hakim Al-Ghazewi
Child
male
killed
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the vicinity of the Rajab Al Naab School (مدرسة رجب النائب) for which the generic coordinates are: 32.834167, 13.216611. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
