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Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah confirmed the death of Libyan military chief Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad in a plane crash in Turkey.
Turkey’s interior minister said earlier that air traffic controllers lost contact with a Dassault Falcon 50-type jet carrying the Libyan military chief and others home after a visit to Turkey.
The Turkish presidency’s communications directorate said the private jet had reported a technical failure, requesting an emergency landing as a result.
The plane then lost contact with air traffic control before crashing 70 kilometers (43.5 miles) south of Ankara.
Turkey holds close relations with the UN-backed Libyan government and provides the Tripoli-based administration with military support.
Four other members of the Libyan delegation, as well as three crew were also killed in the crash.
Libya has been ravaged by a civil war since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
