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Libyan forces taking back ISIS stronghold

By Hamdi Alkhshali, Tim Lister and Angela Dewan, CNN
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Updated 7:18 AM EDT, Sun June 12, 2016
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A Dutch journalist was killed by sniper fire on October 2, 2016 while covering clashes in Libya's coastal city of Sirte, as unity government forces battled Islamic State group holdouts in the jihadist bastion.Dr Akram Gliwan, spokesman for a hospital in Misrata where pro-government fighters are treated, told AFP that photographer Jeroen Oerlemans was "shot in the chest by an IS sniper while covering battles in Sirte" 450 kilometres (280 miles) east of Tripoli.
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