Newspaper: British mercenaries fail to reach Libya via Malta

WORLD, Dec. 15 (YPA) – A group of private British military mercenaries travelling to Libya were intercepted by the police last Saturday, MaltaToday Newspaper reported.

According to the paper, the men, understood to be ex-British army soldiers, were arrested boarding a private flight to the North African country, which has been ravaged by civil war in recent years.

Sources told the newspaper that the police had acted on a tip-off about the group, whom they intercepted before they boarded their flight.

The group were later released from arrest, and no charges were filed against them. The group is understood to have already left Malta.

The mercenaries were, however, forbidden from using Maltese airspace to travel to Libya.

E.M