Clashes in Libyan city of Zawiya cause 'severe damage' at oil refinery

The clashes trapped residents in their homes and caused fires at the country’s second largest oil refinery, city officials said.

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00:00Clashes broke out between armed groups in the western Libyan city of Zawiya, trapping

00:06residents in their homes and causing fires in the country's second largest oil refinery.

00:13Bullets reportedly hit oil tanks, leading to dangerous fires, but firefighters managed

00:17to control the blaze and gas leaks as clashes raged around the refinery.

00:23Oil-rich Libya has been divided for years between rival administrations in the east

00:27and west.

00:29It was plunged into chaos after a civil war which toppled the government of Muammar Gaddafi.