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Wissam Salem reported on Twitter that four people were killed and 15 more injured in an airstrike near Sirte. Salem didn’t elaborate if the victims were civilians or combattants.
However, other sources claimed that the casualties resulted either from a car bomb or mortars.
Wady Dynar reported that the explosions heard in Al Dahir in the outskirts of Sirte were mortar shells and not airstrikes.
Libyans reported that the explosions were caused by a car bomb.
A pro Gaddafi Facebook page claimed the strikes were conducted by the US near the Wadan project.
News_yemen on Twitter also reported the incident as a US airstrike on Ansar al-Sharia.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Summary
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Geolocation notes (1) [ collapse]
Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Al Dahir (الظهي), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.200556, 16.428333. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.