Airwars assessment
One girl was allegedly killed and three other civilians injured by indiscriminate shelling on the Al Hadaba Al Badri neighbourhood of Tripoli.
The Field Medicine and Support Center (FMSC) said: “A shell targeted the home of the Kalila family this afternoon, Sunday, 5/1-2020, in the Hadaba Al Badri area, and resulted in the death of the child Khitam Abdel Wahab Kalila, 12 years old, and the injury of her younger brother, Mohamed Abdel Wahab Kalila, who is 6 years old, with a severe head injury and the injury of two young men who happened to be near the house.”
In a different post it said that Serag Abd al-Sayyid, from Sudan, suffered head and back injuries.
Other sources published similar accounts. Libya Alahrar TV said that adjacent buildings and cars suffered damage from the shelling.
Local reports of clashes point at the GNA or LNA as the culprit.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (2)
- Khitam Abdel Wahab Kalila 12 years old female killed
- Mohamed Abdel Wahab Kalila 6 years old male injured
- Serag Abd al-Sayyid Adult male injured
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Geolocation notes (1) [ collapse]
Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Al Hadaba Al Badri (الهضبة البدري), for which the generic coordinates are: 32.836207, 13.21315. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.