News / Tripoli Airport closed after gun battles leave six dead and no air traffic control

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Tripoli Airport is closed today, following armed clashes yesterday on the outskirts of Libya’s capital that left six people dead, 25 wounded and aircraft badly damaged.

Western Libyan airspace has also been closed until Wednesday, because of restrictions to air traffic control caused by staff being unable to operate radar, the Director General of the Libyan Civil Aviation Authority (LYCAA), Captain Nasereddin Shaebelain, told The Loadstar.

The restriction, he said, stretched between Tunisia, Malta and Chad.

“The east is okay, and we are ...