China has evacuated almost 900 of its workers caught up in fighting in Libya, a Chinese official has told the BBC, leaving only a few dozen in Tripoli.
The Chinese are the latest in long list
of overseas workers to leave Libya, including Americans, Britons,
Egyptians, Filipinos and Pakistanis.
Libya has been gripped by violence involving militias that spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
Much of the fighting has between rival militia groups over the last month.
The fighting has been centred on the international airport in Tripoli and in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Correspondents say that this is not the
first time that China has evacuated its workers in Libya – during the
Libyan civil war in 2011, China evacuated 35,860 nationals.
China on Wednesday thanked Greece for its help in evacuating nearly 80 of its nationals from Libya last wee
