Militias apparently backing a renegade Libyan general attacked the country’s parliament in the capital on Sunday, kidnapping some 20 lawmakers and officials in an assault that threatened to further splinter a country that seems to be speriling head long into chaos.
A spokesman for the Gen. Khalifa Hifter, said the forces acted under his command.
Backed by truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns, mortars and rocket fire, the gunmen sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives as they ransacked the legislature. Heavy gunfire rang out into the night in Libya´s capital, Tripoli, panicking residents as mortar rounds landed in their neighborhoods.
