Raid on Ras Lanuf | |||||||
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Part of Libyan Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Hamid Hassy Fadl-Allah Haroun | Unknown | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
About 60 refinery workers[1] Unknown number of fighters |
15 saboteurs[2] Up to 150 fighters[3] 14-40 vehicles[1][3] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
15-17 fighters killed,[3] 2 workers wounded[1] | Unknown* | ||||||
*One NTC source claimed 15 loyalists were killed and 10 captured,[2] but later reports made no mention of pro-Gaddafi losses[1][3] |
The raid on Ras Lanuf was a hit-and-run attack carried out in the early morning of 12 September 2011[4] by two groups of fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in an apparently coordinated effort to disrupt oil refinery and export operations in the National Transitional Council-administered port town of Ra's Lanuf, Libya, during the Libyan Civil War.