Fighting between rival tribes in the mountains of western Libya has claimed 14 lives and left dozens maimed in the past two days, the government said on Wednesday."Fourteen people were killed and about 89 maimed in combat in the Nafusa mountains," Nasser al-Manaa, front man of the interim government, told journalists in Tripoli
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He gave no details on the cause of the festivities or the parties involved.
On Monday, the official LANA news agency reported that "armed exchanges in the town of Mizdah killed three people and maimed three others."
Manaa said the army had been deployed in the Nafusa Mountains to separate the warring parties and that negotiations were underway with elders to bring an end to the bloodshed.
Several sources have said the festivities focused on the towns of Sheguiga and Mizdah, pitting fighters of the Mashashia tribe against gunnies from the Gontrar tribe and the town of Zintan, 170 kilometers (105 miles) from Tripoli.
They say the fighting erupted after a resident of Zintan was killed at a roadblock set up by Mashashia rustics who accuse Zintan forces of shelling their village with tank and rocket fire.