Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic identified the two as Sladjana Stankovic, a communications officer, and Jovica Stepic, a driver. They were snatched in November after their diplomatic convoy, including the ambassador, came under fire near the coastal Libyan city of Sabratha.
Speaking at a news conference in Belgrade, Dacic said information about the deaths was given to Serbia by foreign officials but had not yet been confirmed by the Libyan government.
"We got the information, including photos, which clearly show that this is most probably true," Dacic said.
American F-15E fighter-bombers struck an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing dozens, probably including an IS operative considered responsible for deadly attacks in Tunisia last year, U.S. and local officials have said...
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Serbian embassy employees 'unfortunately' killed as consequence of attack on ISIS...
ReplyDeleteA US strike on an Islamic State jihadist camp in Libya killed two Serbian embassy employees who were kidnapped in the area in November, Serbia's foreign minister said Saturday.
"Unfortunately as a consequence of this attack on the Islamic State (IS) in Libya, the two of them lost their lives," Ivica Dacic told reporters, referring to Friday's air strike.
Embassy communications chief Sladjana Stankovic and her driver Jovica Stepic were kidnapped on November 8 in the coastal city of Sabratha, 70 kilometers (42 miles) west of Tripoli, from a convoy of cars heading to the Tunisian border.
The US strike, which targeted a jihadist training camp near Sabratha, killed dozens of people, probably including Noureddine Chouchane, a senior IS group operative behind attacks in Tunisia, US officials said Friday.
It was the second US air raid in the violence-wracked North African country targeting the fast-expanding jihadist group in the past three months.....http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/africa/103542-160220-us-air-strike-on-libya-kills-two-abducted-serbians-minister