Ten armed men surrounded and stopped the van in
the coastal city of Sirte
carrying 53million Libyan dinars (£26.8million) and foreign currency worth $12
million (£7.5million), state news agency lana said.
The van was coming from Sirte airport where the
cash had been flown in from Tripoli
for the local central bank branch.
'The robbing is a catastrophe not just for Sirte
but the whole of Libya ,'
Abdel-Fattah Mohammed, head of Sirte council, told Reuters.
He said the local authority had asked several
times for better security for such transports.
The Libyan government has been struggling since
the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi to assert control of a country brimming with
armed militias, gangs and radical Islamists.
The OPEC country's oil exports fell to less than
10 per cent of capacity on Monday after protesters shut down ports and
oilfields in the west.
Similar strikes over pay or political demands
have already paralyzed most of the eastern oil ports.
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