30 students killed in attack on Military College in Tripoli – UPDATED
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30Military College students have been killed and over 40 others have been injured in airstrikes on the headquarters of the Military College in Hadba neighborhood in Tripoli, Libya, Health Ministry spokesman confirmed Saturday. 
The airstrike hit a military school in southern Tripoli late Saturday.
Update Reacting to the airstrike, Minister of Interior Fathi Bashagha urged the government to cut ties with the United Arab Emirates immediately
Shortly after the massacre, thousands of people went to the streets of Tripoli and other Western Libya cities to denounce the airstrike chanting anti-Haftar, UAE and Egypt slogans.
The Libyan Express reports that Fawzi Awnis, said the deaths and injuries were sent to Khadra Hospital, which has called for emergency blood donations for the serious case.
Medical workers at the scene were looking for bodies in the rubble, and warned the number of victims could rise. Authorities also called for blood donations to help hospitals treat the wounded.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday’s strike. Forces allied with the GNA described Saturday’s attack on the military camp at Al-Hadhba as “an aerial bombing” launched by their eastern rivals. The LNA of Khalifa Haftar’s spokesman enied involvement.
There has been an increase in air strikes and shelling around Tripoli in recent weeks, with fears that fighting could escalate further after Turkey’s parliament voted to allow a troop deployment in support of the GNA.
GNA Health Minister Hamid bin Omar told Reuters in a phone call that the number of dead and wounded was still rising. Tripoli ambulance service spokesman Osama Ali said some body parts could not be immediately counted by forensic experts.
Earlier, the ambulance service appealed for a temporary ceasefire to allow its members to retrieve the bodies of five civilians killed on As Sidra Road area south of central Tripoli, and evacuate families living in there.
Emergency teams withdrew after coming under fire while trying to access the area on Saturday, it added.
An increase in air strikes and shelling in and around Tripoli has caused the deaths of at least 11 civilians since early December and shut down health facilities and schools, the U.N. mission in Libya said on Friday.
Rockets and shelling also shut down Tripoli’s only functioning airport on Friday.
On Friday, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Libya, warning that the delivery of foreign support to warring parties would “only deepen the ongoing conflict and further complicate efforts to reach a peaceful and comprehensive political solution”.
Libya’s eastern-based parliament, which relocated from Tripoli in 2014 as the country split into rival camps in Tripoli and the east, voted to provide Haftar with emergency funding on Saturday.
The pro-Haftar chamber also held a series of symbolic votes against the GNA and Turkey, which struck two pacts on maritime boundaries and military cooperation in November.
