A gunbattle between rival militias erupted in the Libyan capital Wednesday, illustrating how Libya’s new rulers have so far failed to put their stamp on their country and bring it under control.
No one was hurt in the bizarre standoff. Witnesses say remnants of fighting groups from the towns of Misrata and Zintan faced off in downtown Tripoli over control of a sports complex on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The two sides fired rifles and heavy machine guns, witnesses said, but mostly in the air, shattering the complex’s windows and damaging a number of nearby cars. After about an hour, Tripoli’s high security council, which is under the Interior Ministry, blocked off
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