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Libya’s military spokesman, Ahmed al-Mesmari on Monday said ISIS-linked militants in the country beheaded eight guards after an assault on an oil field last week during which nine foreigners were abducted.
He added that an employee of the al-Ghani oil field, who watched the beheadings, subsequently died of a heart attack.
Although, Al-Mesmari did not elaborate on how the army knows about the beheadings but the force serving as oil guards is closely allied to the Libyan military, which answers to the eastern-based government, one of Libya’s two rival governments.
Authorities in the Philippines and Austria confirmed that nine of their citizens were abducted during the attack Friday on al-Ghani, part of IS attacks on Libya’s oil infrastructure.