ISIS militants attacked a Libyan hospital and kidnapped 20
medical workers, a hospital official said -- the latest example of the Islamist
extremist group's reach into North Africa.
About 30 gunmen tied to the group calling itself the Islamic
State stormed Ibn Sina Hospital in Sirte on Monday while a bus was waiting to
take the workers to Tripoli, Libya's capital.
Those abducted weren't Libyan. Most are from the
Philippines, with others from Ukraine, India and Serbia, according to an
official at Ibn Sina Hospital.
The kidnappings come days after people of Filipino,
Austrian, Czech, Ghanaian and Bangladeshi descent were taken from Libya's
Al-Ghani oil field, an operation that Libya's internationally recognized
government blamed on "ISIS militias."
The abductions are more evidence of the turmoil Libya has
experienced since 2011, the start of an uprising against longtime dictator
Moammar Gadhafi.
Sirte was Gadhafi's hometown, where he was killed, and where
his loyalists held out the longest. In the years since, Sirte has become a home
to ISIS.
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