TRIPOLI, Feb 10, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - A helicopter has crashed in southeastern 
Libya, killing a medic and two crew members carrying out a medical 
evacuation, state media said Tuesday.

Libyan news agency LANA said the chopper went down overnight near an airbase 
in the Kufra region about 60 kilometres north of the border between Libya and 
Chad.

The aircraft was attempting to evacuate a soldier who had been involved in a 
road accident in the desert, LANA said.

The cause of the crash was not immediately known and it was unclear what 
happened to the injured soldier.

Libyan media reports said two foreign nationals were among those on board who 
were killed, but this was not confirmed by authorities.

The Matan al-Sarra airbase lies in an area under the control of Libya's 
Benghazi-based eastern administration led by military strongman Khalifa 
Haftar, but authorities in the east did not comment on the crash.

Libya remains split between the eastern administration and a UN-backed 
government in the west led by Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah. The LANA 
news agency is under the control of western authorities.

Libya has struggled to recover from chaos that erupted following a 2011 Arab 
Spring uprising that toppled and killed longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi.