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About 40 dead in air raid on jihadists in Libya: officials

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AFP Tripoli
An air strike by an unidentified warplane today killed more than 40 people near the Libyan capital where suspected members of the Islamic State group were gathered in a house, officials said.

The house in Sabratha was completely destroyed in the raid, said Hussein al-Dawadi, an official in the city located about 70 kilometres west of Tripoli near the border with Tunisia.

A Western official quoted by the New York Times said US warplanes carried out the strike targeting a senior Tunisian operative linked to two major jihadist attacks in Tunisia last year.

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First Published: Feb 19 2016 | 5:28 PM IST

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