Bodies of five TV crew members found near Libya’s Bayda
The bodies of five people working for a private Libyan television network have been found, months after they were abducted in the country’s eastern region.
Hatem al-Aribi, a spokesman for the government that is based in eastern Libya, said on Monday that the bodies were found near the city of Bayda.
According to the spokesman, the crew members of the Barqa TV network were abducted last August, while they were traveling to their hometown of Ajdabiya. They had just covered the opening ceremony of the parliament in Tobruk.
Libya currently has two rival governments vying for control of the oil-rich country, with one controlling the capital, Tripoli, and the other, which is internationally recognized, governing the cities of Bayda and Tobruk in the east.
Reports say editor Khaled al-Sibihi, presenter Yunes al-Mabrouk al-Moghrabi, reporters Abdelsalam al-Moghrabi and Yussef al-Qumudi, and Egyptian video editor Mohamad Jalal were abducted after being stopped at a checkpoint.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the deaths.
Four years after the 2011 uprising against the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains in chaos. The ouster of Gaddafi gave rise to a patchwork of heavily-armed militias and deep political divisions.
The country has been witnessing numerous clashes between forces loyal to the internationally recognized government and rival factions, which refuse to lay down arms.
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