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Fighters linked to the Islamic State group have killed three Libyan security personnel in the country’s southwest, the interior ministry said Thursday. The attack on Wednesday, in the desert some 700 kilometres (430 miles) south of Tripoli, “targeted a patrol of the Umm al-Aranib Martyrs’ Brigade, killing three of its members”, the ministry said in a statement. It added that government forces had “killed four members of Daesh (an Arabic term for IS) and destroyed their vehicle”. It said a search was underway for other “terrorists” who had fled. It said the jihadists were attempting to “undermi…