A Libyan air force pilot was killed Wednesday as his fighter jet crashed in the east of the country after carrying out strikes on a nearby jihadist stronghold, a military source said.
The MiG-21 crash-landed in a residential area south of Tobruk, where a rival to Libya's UN-backed unity government is based, 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) east of Tripoli.
A source at a Tobruk military base, who declined to be named, said the jet had carried out bombing raids on jihadist positions in Derna, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Tobruk, before crashing.
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