No Moroccan national was killed in the Libya terror attack, Morocco Foreign Ministry says

Following the terror attack that targeted, Tuesday, the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli, killing three people, an authorized source from the Moroccan Foreign Ministry confirmed to Yabiladi that no Moroccan national was killed in Libya.

Contrary to several reports, including the one published by Turkish news agency Anadolu, the woman who was injured in the attack is Libyan and not Moroccan, the same source added. The same thing was announced today by the Libyan Foreign Ministry which said in a statement that the woman in question was not Moroccan.

Quoting Libyan officials, Turkish news agency Anadolu reported that 21 people were injured in the attack, stressing that a Moroccan national was one of the three people killed today in Tripoli.

Meanwhile, Arabic-language online newspaper Alyaoum 24, citing sources at the Moroccan Foreign Ministry, said that the Moroccan national is still alive. The same source said that she was wounded in the shoulder.

For the record, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the building, while another man managed to activate his explosive belt, after being shot by the security services near the ministry.

A car was bombed at the Ministry’s entrance, which houses the office of the Libyan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Taha Siala.

Sources in Tripoli announced that the attack was carried by several «terrorists» who broke into the Ministry’s building.