Nine killed in tribal clashes in Libya

Tripoli, Sep 29 (IANS/EFE) At least nine people have died in clashes between members of two tribes in the southern Libyan city of Sabha, a security source in the city told Spanish news agency Efe Monday.

The violence erupted Sunday between members of the tribes of Awlad Sulaiman and of Gadadifa, to which the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi belonged, after the death of a young man from the latter which was blamed on a member of the other tribe.

The source said that among those killed were two sub-Saharan immigrants unrelated to either tribe who died in the crossfire.

A member of the Islamist group, Ansar Sharia, was also among the dead.

Since the 2011 revolution against Gaddafi, his tribe has kept a low profile and not gotten involved in the ongoing tribal, political and religious unrest in which thousands have died and that the central government appears unable to stop.

--IANS/EFE

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