Libya employ a team of UN weapons destruction and mines

Average owning every Libyan arms closer to 4 pieces per person

Tripoli - Ibrahim Ali

Recruited by the United Nations Mission of Support in Libya a team of experts to provide technical advice in dealing with the effects of the blast in the stores of weapons and ammunition area Barak beach ( south ) in the twenty-eighth of November last year , which led to the deaths of more than a dozen people and wounding others , and assess the situation in this areas .

The mission revealed that it had sent a team specialized in dealing with mines and explosives to Sabha to assess the situation there , and put three other teams on standby to start cleansing the vicinity of the blast area if requested by the local authorities .

Experts say the United Nations that the cause of the explosions in shelters arms three Berak beach fire ignited by thieves to illuminate the place and choose what can be stolen, pointing out that the theft and looting took place in a place more than once earlier , where it was looted shelters century in the region.

As explained by the United Nations experts that the thieves took launchers and weapons and ammunition were not their destination looting copper and aluminum just as it was said earlier .


The teams continued to work in the Libyan civil defense lift the rubble of the massive fire that broke out in the stores of arms Berak the beach and the search for more bodies of the victims of the blasts.

47 storage area for weapons

The area Barak beach and one of the 47 area for the storage of weapons and ammunition , damaged , including 21 locations in can no longer be restored or repaired because of the war that took place and the proceedings between al-Gaddafi and the rebels , making thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition unsecured and potentially explosive easily if not located dealing with by experts.


The head of the Section Advisory Group on arms and ammunition in the United Nations Mission of Support in Libya " have Anjelbricht " who said in a statement published on the mission " in most cases, be ammunition scattered in the storage areas for ammunition making it easier to plunder , and to treat individuals who are not trained with these munitions offered to the risk of explosion, which results be fatal in most cases . "

3.5 firearms per Lippi

The United Nations has removed nearly two hundred thousand pieces of explosive remnants of war from residential areas and the military over the past year , but hundreds of thousands of explosives and a huge quantity of ammunition are still found in stores is secured well, as well as the average possession of Libyan arms is 3.5 firearms for every citizen .

It requested the United Nations Mission in Libya to support additional funding for the implementation of the program of the three steps to get rid of ammunition through the cleansing of contaminated sites and the destruction of ammunition expired and restore materials that can be recycled and finally build facilities for safe storage .


And called on the Libyan authorities earlier in the international community to assist in the destruction of its stockpile of chemical weapons in accordance with the new calendar ends in 2016 , and said that stores these weapons locked and monitored by international experts .