{"id":445,"date":"2017-02-21T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2017-02-21T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:30:07","slug":"fayez-al-sarraj-not-hurt-after-convoy-comes-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/02\/21\/fayez-al-sarraj-not-hurt-after-convoy-comes-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Fayez al-Sarraj not hurt after convoy comes under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Al Jazeera:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unidentified gunmen have opened fire on a convoy carrying the prime minister of Libya&#8217;s UN-backed government, Fayez al-Sarraj, in Tripoli without causing any casualties, according to his administration.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ashraf al-Thulthi, the administration spokesman, said on Monday that the incident occurred as the motorcade passed near the Abu Salim district of the Libyan capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the cars were armoured-plated, and there were no injuries,&#8221; he said, adding an investigation was under way to identify the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether it was a targeted attack, Thulthi said.<\/p>\n<p>The convoy was also carrying Abdurrahman Swehli, the head of the state council,\u00a0Najmi Nakua, the commander of the presidential guard, according to Thulthi.<\/p>\n<p>Sarraj&#8217;s Government of National Accord (GNA) said in a\u00a0statement that Sarraj, Swehli and Nakua had opened a new criminal investigations unit in Tripoli on Monday morning, and published pictures of the three at the event. It did not mention the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Sarraj and the GNA&#8217;s other leaders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/03\/libya-backed-unity-government-arrives-tripoli-160330125804929.html\" target=\"_self\">arrived<\/a> in Tripoli last March following a UN-backed deal signed in late 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, his Tripoli-based government has struggled to impose its authority, particularly in eastern Libya where a rival administration holds sway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: Unidentified gunmen have opened fire on a convoy carrying the prime minister of Libya&#8217;s UN-backed government, Fayez al-Sarraj, in Tripoli without causing any casualties, according to his administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}