ZAWIYAH, Libya: Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Tuesday evening that all the fires sparked by drone attacks on the country’s second-largest oil refinery had been contained.
On Monday night, a large gasoline reservoir west of the capital caught fire and collapsed after it was “struck by a drone, while another drone fell near a second tank without causing casualties,” Hamdi Al-Bishti, head of the Brega Oil Company that runs the refinery, told AFP.
The NOC said another drone had targeted the complex but did not cause any damage.
It remains unclear who is behind the attacks.
In a statement, the Tripoli-based government condemned the strikes as “an escalation that will not go unpunished,” vowing to “hunt down those responsible.”
