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Summary Clashes between tribes have left at least 70 people dead since mondat in the desert town on Sebha.
Three days of clashes between tribes in the southern Libyan town of Sabha have killed more than 70 people, Libyan government spokesman Nasser al-Manaa said on Wednesday.It is regrettable that more than 70 people have been killed and more than 150 have been wounded since Monday the desert town of Sebha, the spokesman told a news conference in Tripoli.Local officials said the fighting pitting the Toubou tribe against Arab tribes in Sebha had eased and efforts to secure a truce were underway Wednesday, although the Toubou claimed they were facing a massacre.There are still clashes but not as intense, in Sebha, southern Libya, said Abdelmajid Seif al-Nasser, a town official who quit his post on Tuesday from the ruling National Transitional Council in protest at the violence.The national army and a committee of elders have entered the town in a bid to secure a truce, Nasser, who represented the NTC in Sebha, told AFP earlier on Wednesday.But Toubou tribesmen said rival Arab tribesmen from Sabha were surrounding them in the Tayuri and Al-Hijara neighbourhoods and shelling them since the early hours of the morning.
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