02-05-2024 04:19 AM Jerusalem Timing

US Libya Strike Kills Two Abducted Serbians: Belgrade

US Libya Strike Kills Two Abducted Serbians: Belgrade

A US strike on ISIL camp in Libya killed two Serbian embassy employees who were kidnapped in the area in November, Serbia’s foreign minister said Saturday.

A US strike on ISIL camp in Libya killed two Serbian embassy employees who were kidnapped in the area in November, Serbia's foreign minister said Saturday.

"Unfortunately as a consequence of this attack on the ISIL in Libya, the two of them lost their lives," Ivica Dacic told reporters, referring to Friday's air strike.

Embassy communications chief Sladjana Stankovic and her driver Jovica Stepic were kidnapped on November 8 in the coastal city of Sabratha, 70 kilometers west of Tripoli, from a convoy of cars heading to the Tunisian border.

US strikeThe US strike, which targeted a Takfiri training camp near Sabratha, killed dozens of people, probably including Noureddine Chouchane, a senior ISIL group operative behind attacks in Tunisia, US officials said Friday.

It was the second US air raid in the violence-wracked North African country targeting the fast-expanding Takfiri group in the past three months.

Belgrade maintains an embassy in Tripoli, and Serbian citizens, mostly doctors and other medical staff as well as construction workers, have been working in Libya for decades due to close bilateral relations during Kadhafi's regime.