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Military plane carries injured Libyans to Turkey

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-04-05 16:44

ANKARA - A Turkish military cargo plane carrying Libyans injured in the North African country's fierce conflicts arrived in southwestern Turkey on Tuesday, local media reported.

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The plane departed from the Libyan city of Benghazi and landed at the Dalaman town in Mugla Province early Tuesday, the semi- official Anatolia news agency reported, without giving the number of injured people aboard.

Six of the injured were badly wounded and transferred to the state hospital in Mugla, while others were being treated by 60 medical experts at the Dalaman air base, said the report.

It added that none of the Libyans was in a critical condition.

Turkey has assumed control of Benghazi airport to conduct humanitarian relief missions in the war-torn country as part of the multinational operations now under NATO command.