Officer killed as Turkish ship bombed near Libyan port

5 Dariya News

Tripoli 11-May-2015

An officer of a Turkish cargo ship was killed and several crew members injured when the vessel came under attack near a Libyan port, Press TV reported on Monday.The MV Tuna 1 was bombed near the eastern port of Tobruk on Sunday when it tried to approach the shore, Turkey's foreign ministry was quoted as saying."We condemn strongly this contemptible attack which targeted a civilian ship in international waters and curse those who carried it out," the ministry said in a statement.The ship was transporting cargo to the Libyan port from Spain. Mohamed Hejazi, a Libyan military spokesperson, said the ship was attacked after it ignored a warning not to approach the city of Derna, some 145 km west of Tobruk.Libya, a major oil producer in North Africa, has been witnessing a frayed political process after former leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled during the 2011 political turmoil.