Health facilities near Tripoli have reported 47 people killed and 181 wounded in recent fighting, the World Health Organisation says.
Eastern forces are seeking to take Libya's capital from an internationally-recognised government in a renewed conflict in a nation splintered since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said the death toll is higher than that given by either side and appeared to be mainly fighters, although it also included some civilians including two doctors.
Militants head to the frontline to join forces defending the capital, in Tripoli, Libya, 8 April 2019.The eastern Libyan National Army forces of former Gadaffi general Khalifa Haftar seized largely-desert southern Libya earlier this year before heading to the coastal capital this month. The United Nations, United States, European Union and G7 block have all appealed for a ceasefire and a return to UN peace plan, but Haftar has so far not heeded them.