The nine Spaniards trapped in the Tripoli hotel – which are part of a mission of 21 compatriots led by the Tarragona Chamber of Commerce – have spent the night in the dark and locked in the basement of the building, after the outbreak of a conflict between rival guerrillas in the Libyan capital. “They are clean out there,” says Onda Zero Begoña Fernández Costales, president of the Federation of Women Business of Asturias. And he adds that they are waiting to be evacuated to the embassy, but for now they are asked to wait by caution. The nine are fine and do not fear for their life.
Begoña tells that “the worst expectations have been met.” Ensures that there are rumors that “militias from Benghazi and other cities of Libya could be arriving to avenge the murder of the head of the militia”. “We are seeing a column of fire and we carry with open fire all night,” admits the president of the Federation of Women Entrepreneurs of Asturias. “The entire hotel is confined in the basement. We are waiting that when everything is calmed the Spanish embassy can evacuate ourselves safely and be able to leave the country when the airport reopens, “Begoña Fernández Costales told us.”
“Our Embassy in Tripoli with our ambassador to the front is in contact with them, they are located, and the message of that avoid displacements and remain in their residences or hotels. By social networks, the emergency phones of the embassy have been reiterated, for those who need to come into contact, ”according to sources from the ministry directed by José Manuel Albares.
Exteriors is pending, they claim that they have them located and informed and that “As soon as the security conditions allow it, the embassy will meet with them and help you get out of the country if you wish”. Of course, for now it will have to be by other ways because the Tripoli airport has been closed for two days due to the clashes.
Tripoli registers these days the most intense clashes in years after the murder this week of a leader of one of the militias, which triggered the fighting that 6 dead have left for the moment.
