Libyans have lost faith in political class, US diplomat says after Tripoli clashes

A man in Tripoli surveys the damage from the fighting in which more than 32 people were killed. Photograph: Yousef/AP

Libyans have lost faith that the political class and its allied militias and mercenaries are willing to end their robbery of the nation’s wealth, a senior US diplomat has warned, after some of the worst violence in Tripoli in years.

More than 32 people were killed and 150 wounded in clashes in the capital last week between militia allied to the rival prime ministers Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and Fathi Bashagha.