Dutch journalist killed as clashes rock Libya’s Sirte

TRIPOLI: A Dutch journalist was killed by sniper fire on Sunday while covering clashes in Libya’s coastal city of Sirte, as government forces battled Islamic State

TRIPOLI: A Dutch journalist was killed by sniper fire on Sunday while covering clashes in Libya’s coastal city of Sirte, as government forces battled Islamic State holdouts in the militants bastion. Dr Akram Gliwan, spokesman for a hospital in Misrata where government fighters are treated, said Jeroen Oerlemans was “shot in the chest by an IS sniper”.

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