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Libya's army chief has been killed after his plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Turkish capital, Ankara.

General Mohammad Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad was in Turkey for talks aimed at further strengthening military and security cooperation between the two countries.

My colleague Ankur Desai heard from our Middle East analyst, Sebastian Usher.

There was a message, a tweet from the Turkish interior minister saying that radio contact had been lost with this business jet which was carrying the Libyan chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad and several other officials that had left Ankara.

And he said that about 40 minutes after it had left, on the way back to Tripoli, the Libyan capital,

It had requested an emergency landing, but then there was radio silence after that.

For some time after that, there wasn't any direct confirmation of what had happened.

But then the Turkish interior minister again said that wreckage of the flight had been found about 70 kilometers from Ankara.

Well, talks were between the military staff, the other Libyan officials with him.

Now, they're representing one part of a political scene which remains fractured in Libya.