The mayor of the municipality of Zilten (130 km west of Tripoli), Omar Saleh al-Saghir, confirmed that he had been subjected to a “terrorist assassination attempt,” indicating that he had escaped from it after his car was shot at by masked gunmen.
Al-Saghir said, on Facebook “Praise be to God, who saved me today from a premeditated, failed terrorist assassination attempt.”
“Unknown gunmen from outside the city chased me and shot at my car, but I escaped without injuries while my car crashed into one of the houses in the area,” he added.