SABHA
At least 160 people have been killed and 215 injured during three months of fighting – which remains ongoing – between southwestern Libya's Tabu tribe and Tuareg nomads, two medical sources have said.
Within the past three months, Murzuk city's main public hospital has received 46 dead – and 120 injured – from the Tabu tribe, a hospital source told The Anadolu Agency.
Another 114 bodies, meanwhile, including some belonging to foreign African nationals, along with 95 injured, were received by nearby Ubari city's main public hospital over the same period, according to a hospital source there.
Clashes reignited in parts of Ubari two days ago after dignitaries from both sides failed to reinstate a September truce between the two tribes.
Days before September's truce, clashes had erupted between Tabu tribesmen and Tuareg nomads following a confrontation between a Tuareg security guard and a Tabu tribesman in Ubari.
The Tuareg, a Berber people who adhere to a nomadic lifestyle, live in the deserts of Libya, Algeria, Niger and Mali.
There are no official estimates for the number of Libya's Tuaregs, but some sources put them at about 30,000 of the North African country's roughly 6.5-million population.
The Tabu tribe, for its part, has members living in northern Chad and northern Niger, as well as Libya.
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