Warplane attacks Tripoli airport

TRIPOLI: A warplane attacked Tripoli’s only functioning airport yesterday, as eastern forces advancing on the Libyan capital disregarded international appeals for a truce in the latest cycle of warfare since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall in 2011.

Casualties were mounting in the fighting that also threatens to disrupt oil supplies, fuel migration to Europe and wreck UN plans for an election to end rivalries between parallel administrations in the country’s east and west.

The Tripoli-based Health Ministry said fighting in the south of the capital had killed at least 25 people, including fighters and civilians, and wounded 80.