Libya's National Oil Corporation's Tripoli Offices Under Attack

Smoke rises from the headquarters of Libya’s National Oil Corporation in Tripoli. Photograph: Hani Amara/Reuters

BBC: Libya violence: Gunmen storm oil corporation building

An armed group has stormed the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Libya's capital, Tripoli.

Security forces clashed with the armed men at the landmark building in the centre of the city, and blasts and gunfire could be heard, witnesses say.

Last week, the UN announced a truce between warring militias had been agreed in the capital.

A UN-backed government is nominally in power in Tripoli.

However, militias occupy much of the rest of the country.

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