TRIPOLI, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Indiscriminate shelling on Saturday hit a shelter for displaced civilians and killed six people, said a local official.
The bomb hit an accommodation on a university campus in Al-Farnaj area (in Tripoli), which is used to shelter displaced civilians, and the six victims were all civilians, Amin Hashemi, an information advisor to the health ministry, told Xinhua.
The UN-backed government forces accused the east-based army of the deadly shelling.
The east-based army and the UN-backed government have been fighting for control of the capital city of Tripoli since April 2019, and the conflicts have killed and injured hundreds of civilians and displaced more than 150,000 others. Enditem
