“Unfortunately as a consequence of this attack on Daesh in Libya, the two of them lost their lives,” Ivica Dacic told reporters, referring to Friday’s air strike.
Embassy communications chief Sladjana Stankovic and her driver Jovica Stepic were kidnapped on November 8 in the coastal city of Sabratha, 70 kilometres west of Tripoli, from a convoy of cars heading to the Tunisian border.
The US strike, which targeted the terrorist training camp near Sabratha, killed dozens of people, probably including Noor Al Deen Chechan, a senior Daesh operative behind attacks in Tunisia, US officials said Friday.
It was the second US air raid in the violence-wracked North African country targeting the fast-expanding terrorist in the past three months.
Belgrade maintains an embassy in Tripoli, and Serbian citizens, mostly doctors and other medical staff as well as construction workers, have been working in Libya for decades due to close bilateral relations during former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s regime...
AFP - gulfnews.com
20/2/16
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U.S. Air Strike Kills Two Abducted Serbian Embassy Staff In Libya ...
ReplyDeleteTwo Serbian embassy staff members kidnapped in Libya in November are believed to have been killed in U.S. air strikes against a suspected Islamic State (IS) training camp, Serbia’s foreign minister said on February 20.
Sladjana Stankovic, a communications officer, and Jovica Stepic, a driver, were taken hostage on November 8 after their diplomatic convoy, including the ambassador, was ambushed near the coastal city of Sabratha.
Dacic said that information about their deaths was given to Serbia by foreign officials but has not been confirmed by the Libyan government.....http://www.rferl.org/content/us-air-strike-kills-two-abducted-serbian-embassy-staff/27563743.html