The Libyan Interior Ministry said it had instructed all security apparatuses to secure the National Oil Corporation (NOC) after its headquarters was subjected to an attack by an armed group.

The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the security apparatuses in the capital had tackled the attack of the armed group on the NOC as they were authorized to use force of needed and to make arrests of all the perpetrators.

On Monday, Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) confirmed that there was an attempt by armed militias to storm its Tripoli headquarters.

According to the NOC, some armed outlaw gangs attempted to forcefully enter the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation and the Petroleum Facilities Guard, charged with protecting the Corporation’s building, was surprised by the arrival of armed vehicles in the opposite direction to traffic, making some chaotic movements, withdrew weapons and tried to break into the outer fence to the institution building’.